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- From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT marketfarming.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: No-till method research?
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:09:36 -0500
Pennsylvania--Va--50 lashes with a wet noodle
(be it far from me to make a southener outten a yank!)
>I really can't even imagine why this herbacide toting guy keeps
>coming up in our conversations, though-Allan From Acres, USA, Feb 1999 "He (Steve) calculated,
for example, that last year he spent $10 less per acre on agri-chemicals than
neighboring farmers. He compared his current average of $14 per acre in chemical
costs to other local farmers' per acre expense of $20 to $30 in agronomic
crops."
I would much rather have Steve's farm next to me
than a conventional one. It's all about balance. We have to start
somewhere in teaching sustainable farming--Steve's done just that with methods that are also applicable to smaller
scale market farmers (even if we don't agree with everything he teaches),
something we can all learn from, whether we're organic, sustainable,
conventional, biodynamic, etc. I learned from him not to plow in my
cover crops--just mow. Greatly reduced Colorado Potato Beetle damage in my
tomatoes.
Now to figure out how to make mulch from granite ;
))
Liz
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Re: No-till method research?
, (continued)
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/13/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Bev and Chuck Henkel, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Matthew Sullivan, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, cshel, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Allan Balliett, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Liz Pike, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Allan Balliett, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Liz Pike, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Joan Vibert, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, sunnfarm, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jeffery Blake, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Jeffery Blake, 03/14/2001
- Re: No-till method research?, Peter Worsley, 03/15/2001
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