Thanks for sharing all of your agricultural knowledge.
I didn't know about cattle being run on the same patch of land in
off-years. At present the BBC run a 'show' on Victorian farming, very
nice, but I didn't see it there either.
I doubt whether a fence like the pictured one would keep out deer...
It would certainly not prevent Dutch deer from having their free meal.
Maybe US deer are more 'civilised'?
Frank van Lindert
Utrecht NL
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:15:22 -0800, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: Joel Wilcox <wsjvypbk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ken Norton <xra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>> A typical rotation is to run beans year one, corn years two and
>>> three, hay
>>> year four and then repeat the rotation.
>>
>> Right. Farmers used to rotate alfalfa and clover in methodically as a
>> natural fertilizer (nitrogen fixing) and make hay from those "fallow"
>> fields of clover or alfalfa.
>
>
>If they're making hay, they're exporting fertility -- unless the end-
>product of the hay is returned to the soil.
>
>For best result, you should include a "cover crop" or "green manure"
>in your rotation. In these cases, the cover crop is *not* harvested,
>but ploughed back into the soil. A lot of the nitrogen that legumes
>generate is in their foliage.
>
>:::: I'm not looking for culprits because we're all culprits. Every
>last one of us is doing things that shouldn't be done in a rational
>society because we haven't known any alternative. -- M. King Hubbert,
>1976 ::::
>:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.EcoReality.org> ::::
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