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  1. stig

    alternatives in land use

    These are helmetless sheep, but still a good picture, I think.
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    alternatives in land use

    Subsidizes has no impact on what gets produced, of course.
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    alternatives in land use

    I worked for an organic farmer in Schweiz back in the 70es. From what he told me, Steve is quite right about the nitrogen. As the cover crop breaks down, the nitrogen level goes down, but later goes up again. So you need to time it right in order to have that nitrogen on hand for your follow up...
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    alternatives in land use

    Jim, I've been thinking for a long time ( Ever since you started posting here) that there is something crazy about one man having to "Farm" such an extreme number of acres, just to feed his family.
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    alternatives in land use

    Like Butch would say: " DERP"????????????
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    alternatives in land use

    From what I have read, it appears that the US is going to run out of water, because they have drained on aquifer after the other by using the water to irrigate fields faster than it can be replaced. How does that fit in with " Greater environmental awareness"?
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    alternatives in land use

    Exactly. As for listening along at home, this is my version of " A prairie home companion" Jim, there is something wrong with the system when one guy has to farm 10,000 acres just to feed his family.
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    alternatives in land use

    Steve, I was harvesting seeds for that. I've been the in house tree climber for the university of Copenhagen and the Arboretum of Denmark for a long time. Not a bad position to have for an old, worn out logger. Sure makes for some interesting jobs. Apart from the weather being super fine, and...
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    alternatives in land use

    Yep, fixed. I can get in again. Thanks Butch.
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    alternatives in land use

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    alternatives in land use

    Having just had ½ my logging season resceduled to summer logging, because our wintrers have turned from nice and frosty to mud hells, I don't.
  12. stig

    alternatives in land use

    Not here. We have a rule about how large a percentage of a given acreage that can be growing conifers. In order to keep forest owners from trying to turn everything into conifers in order to make a quick buck ( Quick being relative, 50 years to the 120 of hardwoods) Communiss, nanny state...
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    alternatives in land use

    How can an organic farmer just farm land that has been farmed conventionally? Here there is a "clean up" period of 4 years before you can call the produce organic.
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    alternatives in land use

    Jim, those pictures make me wish for spring, so I can get the garden and greenhouse started again.
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    alternatives in land use

    It has gone towards bigger and bigger farms here . I read a lot of articles about farming in the paper these days, because we have a situation there every 5th farm here is bancrupt, only kept going through the good grazes of the banks. So there is a lot of debate about wheter as good...
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    alternatives in land use

    It is a lifestyle that is disappearing, Cory.Unfortunately. And with it go the great vultures who used to live off of the occasional goat or sheep that would die and get left behind. The lammergeier is almost gone from Europe and the Black and griffon vultures are only just hanging on ( Sorry...
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    alternatives in land use

    That was my reaction, too. Seems they have become "modernized" and lost some of the old ways, crop rotation being one. With a more modern market economy farmers apparently tend to grow only that which is saleable in the market. As anyone who have grown potatoes knows, they tend to go to shit if...
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    alternatives in land use

    We have different opinions. Ain't that what makes discussing stuff fun? I mean, if we all felt the same way about everything, this place would bore the hell out of me, and I'd only visit because it gives me a chance to write "ain't". Being able to bounce stuff off a knuckle dragging Montana...
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    alternatives in land use

    That reminds me of what I was telling my wife today. I have let my neighbour run her sheep on one of my pastures for years. I never could get her to understand that if she just let those sheep run all over year round, the grass would never produce enough to feed them, because it would be kept...
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    alternatives in land use

    Jim, it takes quite a while for water to seep down to the levels, from which we get our drinking water. At least around here, it does. So those findings would be pretty consistent with that. We have a small sandy island here where they grew lots of lots of xmas trees. Heavy Atrazine use in...
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