Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

"B. 2015: Subsidies become incentive to substitute perennial grass in rotations for feed grain in meat, egg, and milk production."

NO!  NO subsidies!  As soon as you start doling out subsidies you create the incentive to hide true costs!

Joel Salatin has not bought ANY seed or fertilizer for his farm in over 50 years!  [Perennial] Grass will grow in many, many places, and where it doesn't grow freely (and in conjunction with animal grazing), it shouldn't be grown!


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Jul 19, 2010 06:53:11 AM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> >
> >     "We must acknowledge that all successful corrections will be local. 
> >And that plays to an often-overlooked point: The decline of fossil fuels will require 
> >a higher eyes-to-acre ratio, which means more farmers on the land."
> >
> >
> >The 50-year farm bill
> >http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/6728#more
> >Posted by Gail the Actuary on July 18, 2010 - 10:25am in The Oil Drum: Campfire
> >Topic: Policy/Politics
> >
> >This is an article by Wes Jackson that was previously published by Solutions 
> >Journal. We have included a few Campfire questions at the end.
> >
> >The Trouble with Agriculture
> >---------------------------------------------
> >