Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Dumbing down, yes, and the lack of imagination & inventiveness of 
today's big farmers proves the point.

One for the road:
Why we really should care about boosting farm yields
http://grist.org/food/why-we-really-should-care-about-boosting-farm-yields/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520Sept%25202&utm_campaign=daily


On 9/2/2014 2:29 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> I think it makes a lot of a difference what sort of farming we are 
> talking about Paul. Industrial farming with mono culture does probably 
> not take a rocket scientist to succeed (more or less for a while).
> I find that an old fashioned family farm takes a lot more brains to 
> survive. Imo it takes twice as much brain power to successfully work 
> with horses than it would driving a tractor. Many aspects of 
> "progress" have made a serious dumbing down possible.
> John
>
> > Good point, experience is pretty handy when a new challenge hits. I 
> > have frustrating times when everything forces me to find new 
> > workarounds. And don't always succeed.
> >
> > And they think farmers are dumb until they try it themselves and fail 
> > disastrously. It's not for college majors or something; it requires a 
> > variety of specific skills learned by practice and perseverance. 
> > Texas A&M never taught me how to grow food, nor my parents, tho 
> > grandpa homesteaded in Colorado in a dugout. Later their garden & 
> > root cellar got them thru the Depression.
> >
> > paul
> >  2:02 PM, John D'hondt wrote: