Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Bobby G <bobbyg53211@yahoo.com>]

folks, looking around for information relevant to our
project here in Wisconsin, i came across a bulletin
for a conference last fall of farmer cooperatives,
held in the midwest:

http://uwcc.wisc.edu/farmercoops06/index.html

i was rather disappointed to see that the conference
focused on "biofuels" and their "opportunities"
without even mentioning (not that i could find) the
crucial sustainability questions about rebuilding
soils and protecting water resources.

the other fairly disappointing thing--and i'm seeing
this in all the groups focused on "sustainability"
that i've been attending--is the domination by
academic people in these kinds of groups.

so you have a farmers' coops meeting where most of the
workshops and presentations aren't by farmers, but by
department heads from various well-funded (by
agri-business no doubt) universities.

very disappointing...

bobby g


 
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