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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Climate study
  • Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 01:06:10 +0100

For me it is diversity Paul. We broke records this year with the coldest March and the warmest July since measuring here began in Ireland. Many crops were poor and many others did well. If we had been into mono culture we might have ended up with nothing to eat let alone sell.
John

Here's the best part of your comment IMHO, & ties climate directly to
the purpose of this list:

"I think that it is up to farmers to seek out and create new channels to
obtain accurate climate information so that they can adapt to the
changes, regardless of what the politicians fail to do."

I've had to do some fast adapting myself this year, and repeatedly. First 10 mos of drought, then 2 mos nothing but rain, then very late frost. It disrupted the markets & made it a challenge to just keep supplying them weekly for 5 mos. Crowds fell off after early warmth & late freeze killed all kinds of fruit & berry production.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


On 9/29/2013 9:33 PM, Dan Conine wrote:
I think too much time is wasted on the arguments over who says what when
and why. It is apparent that our current human leadership is lost and
locked in a death spiral of corporate monetary corruption and problem
avoidance. Scientists of all stripes try to find answers while being
forced to come up with 'marketing' strategies to 'sell' their data
instead of continuing their work and having reliable organizations and
leadership to back them up when they do their jobs correctly.
In the meantime, the point of this list seemed to be for pragmatism and
usefulness in the face of a variety of agricultural circumstances.
I think that it is up to farmers to seek out and create new channels to
obtain accurate climate information so that they can adapt to the
changes, regardless of what the politicians fail to do. Politicians only
care about politics, not farming. The power of farm politics is in the
handfuls of money that comes from the food processors and pesticide
corporations. That means the politicians are going to agree to anything
that keeps those buckets of money coming in.
The politicians will pay for studies until the cows are all dead if it
means avoiding the responsibility of choosing one endorsement over
another. As long as they don't choose, both sides will give them money.

Dan C.
SE WI, USA

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