Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

My personal take on it:  If the crop he's growing needs tilling or
herbicides, then why grow wheat or cultivate 300+ acres? I'd also be
interested to know if he's even making a profit. Cultivating also brings
more weed seeds to the surface to germinate. Probably he's never heard of
weed-suppressing cover crops. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/22/2007 at 1:10 PM Marty Kraft wrote:

>I talked to my friend who grows organic wheat this morning. He says  
>that he can't suppress weeds unless he tills. He farms 300+ acres. He  
>believes that the promotion of no-till methods is a furtherance of  
>chemical dependent farming.
>
>When I talk about no-till I'm talking about a much smaller scale than  
>planting acres and acres of wheat. I have no experience beyond  
>vegetable gardening. Does anyone know how to organically grow large  
>acreage of wheat without tilling. I'm sure my friend would like to know.
>
>I also do not want to inadvertently be promoting the idea chemical  
>dependent farming when I say no-till is good.
>
>Marty Kraft
>On Dec 15, 2007, at 7:38 AM, E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote: