Subject: Re: [permaculture] Pasture Renovation and Fertility
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:19:24 -0700 (PDT)
Aloha,
> This is still how a lot of beef is raised, but this system relys on
> feed
> lots to make tender beef. Better management will allow faster growth
> on
> grass/clover pasture alone for good beef quality.
Huh? What feed lot? Grandpa didn't have no feed lot. Got great beef
though (if you like that sort of thing ;-). Way better than anything
from the supermarket.
In other words, I don't follow your comment about feedlots, unless you
mean his sort of casual grazing is too low-density to meet
mass-marketed beef volumes - so feedlots are what exist to supply the
mass market...?
To me it's like power generation, 'consumer products', etc. etc. -
there's way too much of a whole lot of stuff being produced (this goes
way back in history, it's not a new happening), so why figure out more
ways to overproduce more stuff (like beef, in this case)?
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John Schinnerer, MA
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Re: [permaculture] Pasture Renovation and Fertility
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