Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pumpkin Lady <pumpkingal@clearwire.net>]

mdnagel@verizon.net wrote:
> Not enough data to make conclusions...

Yeah

> I believe that this point had been previously made (in other postings), 
> that not all acres are equal.  50 acres in Ohio is different than 50 
> acres in Arizona/Alaska etc..

Yeah. I have that problem.

> As a regular follower/subsciber of The Stockman Grass Farmer I'm pretty 
> much convinced that livestock is essential for maintaining soil 
> fertility, which would mean that farm sizes would likely need to be a 
> bit on the bigger (not HUGE) size, though, once again, it depends on 
> one's locale.

And the livestock. Not everyone wants or needs cows...or 
even goats or pigs or whatever. Chickens would probably be 
better in some areas, goats in others. I bet rabbits would 
work better for some people, too.

Morgan, who has miniature goats and lives in the land of 
acres per cow, not cows per acre.