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Look at the book Malabar Farm.

One of his premises is that nothing left their farm unless it was able to
walk off.

>Interestingly, no-till farming is steadily returning organic matter to
>the soil. In no sense of the word is no-till as it is practiced
>commercially today organic -- this is the process that brought us
>Round-up Ready soybeans -- but it has it's good points.
>
>I vaguely remember reading about some pioneer in the field developing
>-- I think it was in the 1930s -- a method of no-chemical no-till
>farming. Of course, it took a lot of planning to bring off, IIRC.
>Anyone have a clue about this? Or is it a memory brought on by faulty
>chemicals in my system?
>
>There was also a farmer who figured out that grassy waterways would be
>better than mechanical forms of soil conservation, but his methods
>ended up being adopted eventually. All around me the farmers have just
>finished baling their waterway grass -- tough stuff, but cows will eat
>it.
>
>Marie, rambling on a Sunday morning