tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626279.post6596011062171853740..comments2024-01-19T09:04:03.601-08:00Comments on powering down: pandora's pantrynulinegvgvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05007178148902846658noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626279.post-5156883538644749152007-12-11T10:52:00.000-08:002007-12-11T10:52:00.000-08:00anonymous 1. I would argue that no-till farming a...anonymous 1. I would argue that no-till farming alone is not to blame for round up abuse. There are ways to exclude and remove weeds from areas under cultivation without tilling. In addition to manually weeding (not my fav) you can deep mulch with gathered plant biomass and green mulch which just means growing something else so weeds won't take over. I think scale is much more to blame. If you only have a small, highly productive piece of land to care for, you can manage weeds with the strategies mentioned above. Only when you have acres and acres does that become more difficult and that's when chemicals start to look good.<BR/><BR/>anonymous 2. Peter Rosset, among others, has shown small scale, sustainable agriculture (which would mean organic) can feed more people per square foot than industrial agriculture using the chemicals you mentioned. It's much more about what we choose to eat than how we choose to grow it. <BR/><BR/>shannon I have been thinking a lot lately about the benefits of peak oil. There are plenty of them. The question is how soon will we accept reality and embrace these benefits. My fear is that it will take many Americans a long time and quite a bit of backlash before beginning to believe that this could end up being good for us all.nulinegvgvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05007178148902846658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626279.post-83509268424599256802007-12-10T11:45:00.000-08:002007-12-10T11:45:00.000-08:00A reason to look at the end of the oil age as a go...A reason to look at the end of the oil age as a good thing. No oil, no nasty petrochemicals on our food! Even if our population must shrink- only time will tell... Truly frightening. <BR/>The picture is perfect to drive the point home- btw!Shannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10665357769102268827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626279.post-14072918383887855762007-12-04T17:46:00.000-08:002007-12-04T17:46:00.000-08:00It is really sad to witness the farmer becoming ho...It is really sad to witness the farmer becoming hooked on the very thing that will pull him/her down, petro chemicals. The marginal yeilds that this stuff is supposed to get and the damage done to the soil and ecosystem is apalling. more and more stuff (land drugs) are used to get ever decresing yeilds. And if a farmer were to go cold turkey, he/she could not get a loan because the garentee of state of best practace was not followed. And the land would take out it's revenge for the abuse it has suffered and would take years some times to recover, or to get back to a resonable balance. <BR/>I am saddend by the way the soil takes so much abuse so monsanto can show a profet. There is a myth that we could not feed the amount of people that is fed today with out petro chemicals. I do not know for shure. But I feel in my bones that this is only a myth.<BR/>mark in Colo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626279.post-43196962503623309902007-12-04T05:56:00.000-08:002007-12-04T05:56:00.000-08:00Actually no-till farming is a main culprit of roun...Actually no-till farming is a main culprit of roundup abuse. The adoption of roundup and notill have gone hand in hand.<BR/><BR/>It has resulting in roundup resistant pigweed in the south.<BR/><BR/>A friend once witnessed a round-up salesman DRINK an oz of roundup to show its non-toxicity! Batshit crazy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com