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- From: STEVE GILMAN <stevegilman AT verizon.net>
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:10:36 -0500
On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:34 PM, market-farming-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
Hi Bill, I don't think we can assume that global warming will have positive effects on ag sustainability. Check out <www.climateandfarming.org>. Although its focus is on the northeast, it covers a wide range of issues from migrating pest complexes to heat stress in cattle that affects all areas, worldwide. Some dislocations are already upon us. Thanks to the building heat energy in the atmosphere and oceans, typical weather patterns are being skewed and farms are sitting ducks for periods of climate-generated weather extremes, including protracted drought or flooding. With a focus on building soil organic matter, organically managed soils tend to be better buffered against such extremes. Further, organic best management practices actively sequester carbon while conventional ag's use of chem N, herbicides, etc. breaks down organic matter and generates substantial amounts of potent greenhouse gases -- even in no-till. The great (subsidized) ethanol gold rush now upon us, for example, stands to be a fuelish ecological disaster when all the "side-effects", including greenhouse gases generation and terrestrial pollution are totaled -- and in the end the value of sustainabilty is nowhere to be found... Steve Ruckytucks Farm |
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Re: [Market-farming] winter weather
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- Re: [Market-farming] winter weather, Marcy, 02/13/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] winter weather, Errol Castens, 02/15/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage, Bill Bradshaw, 02/08/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage, Tradingpost, 02/08/2007
- [Market-farming] Adios, Tillage is tillage, Tradingpost, 02/08/2007
- [Market-farming] Let the "tillage is tillage" thread die, Liz Pike, 02/08/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage, Sharon and Steve, 02/08/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage, Tradingpost, 02/08/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage,
Home Grown Kansas!, 02/04/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage, Tradingpost, 02/04/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage, Tradingpost, 02/05/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage,
Brigette Leach, 02/06/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Tillage is tillage, Willie McKemie, 02/06/2007
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