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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: charliew@hal-pc.org (charliew)
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 96 23:59:34 GMT
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Article: 15880 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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In article <328a0115.512954578@nntp.st.usm.edu>,
brshears@whale.st.usm.edu (Harold Brashears) wrote:
>l.mcfadden@mail.utexas.edu (Loretta McFadden) wrote for all
to see:
>
>>Harold wrote:
>>> USDA has been studying soil erosion for years, and would
like nothing
>>> more than to prove it to be a large problem, and hence
generator of
>>> programs for them to administer. Their survey found the
average loss
>>> to be 7 tons a year per acre of farmland, while natural
regeneration
>>> runs at 5 tons a year/acre. Call it a net loss of 2
tons per acre.
>>> Two tons an acre is 1/65 of an inch. Thus, in 65 years,
the average
>>> farmland will lose 1 inch of topsoil. Assuming it has
been farmed the
>>> entire 65 years. Some fallow years will make up for
this loss.
>>>
>>Harold - "natural regeneration?" And how many conventional
farmers add
>>anything but petroleum-derived fertilizers, herbicides and
pesticides to
>>their soil? Tell me, what do you know about farming and
the pressures
>>conventional farmers are under to strip-mine the soil?
"Fallow years?"
>>You're sticking your head in that denatured soil and
closing your eyes to
>>reality.
>
>I am sorry you are unaware of the use of modern
conservation tillage.
>Few farmers wish to "strip mine" the soil, though I am sure
that this
>situation does occur.
>
>Are you actually Shiela, better known as the Word Warrior?
She had a
>similar debating style; attack character and intelligence,
make
>assertions, present no references.
I don't believe it! There is a female Nudds in the world.
Heaven help us all!
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