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Holistic Farming
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<blockquote data-quote="Secret Agronomist" data-source="post: 7309547" data-attributes="member: 153120"><p>I guess it depends on what the natural state of the landscape would be, before it was broken. In big chunks of North America it would be grass prairie, so its obvious a grazing based type of regenerative ag would work easily. Especially where rainfall is much lower than we have here. A lot of the farmland in Britain is obviously derived from wetter weather systems. So basically wet Heather moorland and woodland over clays, dry heath over chalk. Peaty soils that are wet year round, salt marshes etc etc. In essence if you want to get your wet soils over clay to behave like a prairie soil you need to remove the water (drainage) or just accept that the system has to be enacted slightly differently in each case. Essentially taking the Gate Brown et al model and expecting it to work everywhere is a fools errand. Yes there will be lessons you can learn but things need to be adapted to each situation, and having someone in a prairie area saying "give it time" doesn't help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Secret Agronomist, post: 7309547, member: 153120"] I guess it depends on what the natural state of the landscape would be, before it was broken. In big chunks of North America it would be grass prairie, so its obvious a grazing based type of regenerative ag would work easily. Especially where rainfall is much lower than we have here. A lot of the farmland in Britain is obviously derived from wetter weather systems. So basically wet Heather moorland and woodland over clays, dry heath over chalk. Peaty soils that are wet year round, salt marshes etc etc. In essence if you want to get your wet soils over clay to behave like a prairie soil you need to remove the water (drainage) or just accept that the system has to be enacted slightly differently in each case. Essentially taking the Gate Brown et al model and expecting it to work everywhere is a fools errand. Yes there will be lessons you can learn but things need to be adapted to each situation, and having someone in a prairie area saying "give it time" doesn't help. [/QUOTE]
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