>You know how it is when you work scientific -- you have your fields >herbicided, then, you no till in what you wish and throw the nitrogen to it. >So, he is wondering how much work he will need to put into the fields doing >things our way -- and what can he expect in the crops. For instance, the >corn -- it will have weeds -- or grasses -- no herbicides. With little to no >inputs over the years -- and the FB running for little over a year -- might >we expect good crops.
wayne - I actually entered into a scenario like this at this time last year. My goal was to roll the agro-chemical no-till farmer who was leasing this land at the time that it became an enironmental preserve into a prosperous biological farmer. Only after a few conversations with him did I come to understand how distant his sense of the land was and how foreign actually interacting with the environment was for him. Even more to the point, he totally lacked the inner voice that we organic growers have, the one that keeps you in service to principle rather than in service to the-normal-american-factory-time-reality. Eventually, he gave up. He did give up before I did, but he gave up. I'm told that Mid-West Bioag and some other ACRES-found consulting companies have programs that make sense to chemical farmers. They even have ways of letting them use their 'chemical boxes' to let down some biological amendments. I rented a house to a fellow who was totally onboard with me as far as keeping the grounds biodynamic. I heard stories about him using Seven, but discounted them. Later, I found his chemical stash. He was putting shit down for diseases I've never heard of and from companies I've never seen before. Another neighbor told me that she always grew everything organically. (See 'Organic Horse Manure' says the bag) She dosed everything with SEVEN. When I asked her about that she said 'Well, you don't expect me to live with BUGS, do you?" My point here is that it's really different world's. By the way, as a spiritual scientist, I guess I'm offended by your use of the word 'scientific agriculture,' eh? Later
