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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (102994)5/3/2005 4:26:39 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
<<So now you are acknowledging that organic/sustainable agriculture does NOT cause soil erosion? This is not what you said the other day. No till agriculture is not limited to GMO crops.>>

Let me clarify my position. On a small scale, organic farming doesn't cause erosion. The person growing veggies on 5 acres for example. That guy can mulch and plant cover crops and will have a very Earth friendly patch.

Now back in the days before chemicals (organic), the only way to fight weeds and bugs, for the bigger farmers, was fall plowing, deep moldboard plowing. Rows and rows, mile after mile, state after state of unprotected soil. The freeze thaw cycle broke the clods into fine particles that the wind picked up. That's when the soil went bye-bye. I remember telephone and power poles with the bottoms eaten off by blowing soil. Now that's erosion.
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