Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

Thanks for passing this on, Paul.

A minor quibble with the author's thesis, tho not news to most on this list:

> A big question mark has to be put next to ethanol fuels, except those made
> from crop wastes.

It is *not* the case that biofuels from corn & grain are wasteful, but 
it's okay to produce them from "crop wastes." Going down that path means 
never returning "crop wastes" to agricultural soils, means the 
continuing loss of humus from soils, means continuing industrial 
agriculture as more mining operation than farming.

~Harvey
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