Subject: Re: your mail

From: [email-masked] (Tom Hodges)
Date: 3 Nov 1994 14:49:55 -0000

Thanks Jim.  We had best consider these things from the point of view
of people who are REALLY going to implement them.  Farmers in the US 
and all other countries.

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On Thu, 3 Nov 1994, James Meade wrote:

> So, my point is we need a lot more positive discussion and workable 
> alternatives that are acceptable from a risk point of veiw and more of us 
> would look at them.  The farmer must focus on the economic side.  
> Management Intensive Grazing is going to do a lot of good for sustainable 
> ag, but do any of you push it?  No.  The guys that push it, and it is 
> starting to get very popular, are showing how it makes the farmer money 
> AND takes care of the land.
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