I'm not a gentleman farmer. I am a retired philosopher. I live in a farming community
and my coffee klatch has farmers and retired farmers in it. I also am surrounded by
farms. When I read Lou's posts they sometimes just make no sense to me.
If Lou is only saying that it is a good idea to retu
Producing grain and livestock on the same farm will introduce some problems. There
is land in the west that is suited to pasture but to no other agricultural use. If
you require that grain growing and pasture be together you are taking this land
out of agricultural use.
Rod
Carrol Cox wrote:
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Ken Hanly wrote:
> I don't get it. What would it be like not to separate livestock from grain?
> Have the livestock wandering through your grain fields? What system of
> agriculture ever suggested that. Maybe I am being flippant, but what you say
> makes absolutely no sense to me. Livestock are
