WILF
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Still, reap what you sow and all that….
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Wasn’t it the civilians in Gaza that voted for Hamas at the get go ?
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Diesel here…..€2:25 a litre ! So, I want a lot more cooked Muslims if I’m paying that kind of money !
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Blood & Soil mate…..it’s intrinsic to what I believe ! See we were the good guys all along !
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I’m absolutely a tree hugger mate, I love the rich tapestry that makes up the British isles. Im not a fundamentalist but I do value stuff
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Ask Mushroom ! lol
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You have to think about it like this mate, you poison a soil to death for 50 years and get it hooked on drugs…..you won’t detox it and make it an athlete in 5 minutes. You have to rebuild what was smashed…..like it can be accelerated if you have access to money and machinery but it won’t reach its full potential in 1 year, it just gets better and better if you get my drift. Its all in the planting of mixed species and trees Once you have established your system of plants, trees, cattle, sheep, and maybe poultry it just keeps building itself….the inputs are cut right out of the
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Not at all mate, I’ve not gone full spoon whittler yet ! lol But it sort of ties in nicely with my wider thoughts on valuing things and globalisation rather than community etc etc Its not “new” thinking, in actual fact it’s more what we used to do when the country was a nice place before every f****r started exploiting us ! Yes, there was a segment on clarksons farm about it but it didn’t really do it justice as it’s not really an instant thing, as is self explanatory when you watch some of those videos…..like it may take 3-5 years to heal the average farm from all years of ba
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About the same but better natured
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Do have a watch, it’s eye opening stuff mate
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At the moment !…..that’s the bit you’re not thinking about mate. At some point they won’t be able to grow food at all because most of the soil will be as good as sand on a beach…… We can produce about 60% of our own food on a hugely artificially over populated island……as I said, it’s a massive and far reaching conversation but the bottom line is if we don’t do something different we won’t be able to produce any of it domestically, we will be relying on importing stuff from others and that’s a lethal position to be in ! And, when done properly your assertion that you can’t get the
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Just a moment... WWW.FARMINGFORNATURE.IE This mob in Ireland are well worth a look. In the meet our farmers section there are 3 equine places using this system
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I bet the lad in Sligo selling his beef boxes at €14 a kilo ain’t got 200 acres….nothing like it, so it can work small scale.
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And there’s the system in a nutshell mate, it’s designed to forever sell you this stuff….like spraying off a field, you will still have to spray it agin the year after and the year after that and the year after that and by the way, you will have to buy bags and bags of nitrogen to fix the lack of it in a monoculture grass field which you could have done totally free with mixed species sward instead……there’s millions of tons of totally free nitrogen just floating around in the air and clover and legumes will capture and fix tons of the stuff in your soil for free !! More than you could ever buy
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@Halfhound I sent you a message with a contact, worth a look if you are looking to lower inputs. The lad has been all round the world working on this stuff, he knows his onions.
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Ahh, now there is the can of worms and the bigger conversation mate. But basically, yes, it can be made to work on a bigger scale because it is being done right at this moment….not only abroad but in the U.K. as well (can’t remember the name of the big farming estate that does it but I’ll try and look it up) Theres lads here doing it, you can do the farm walks through an organisation called Farming For Nature….they are all getting a living mate…..difference is, most of them market their product as beef box direct sales but there’s a lad near me gets €14 kg for his beef and he is sol
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No inputs, no medication, just grass that hasn’t seen a chemical since I lived here.
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Now, I’m a rank amateur and don’t profess to have any farming knowledge of capabilities beyond any other random lad you could lift out of a council estate…..but I did study this subject extensively. Now, over here it’s all cattle in the main and the given wisdom is “the bigger, the better”, killed at 30 months, start again along with all the prescribed medication/worming programmes as set down by the ministry ! My postman has 300 cattle and his bagged feed bill alone every month is €1800 ! But, during the course of my reading and studying I came across a breed of cattle called A
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If we want to really climb down a rabbit hole, manure is full of weed killer residue and chemical treatments for animals…..!! But a closed circle regenerative operation don’t need any of that because everything feeds itself just as nature intended, regenerative almost eliminates inputs. Ive never routinely medicated any of my livestock because I have to eat it and hey presto !….none of them died !
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So it should grow live stock…..it can only artificially grow wheat and that comes at the expense of destroying the soil ! Nature always tells you what’s best. Ill also add, it need a chemicals to grow a monoculture crop but may not need chemicals in a mixed planting scheme in conjunction with over sowing, the soil can be adjusted naturally…..that farmer is just spewing what he has been told all his life by the same government bodies that get sponsored by the likes of Monsanto and Bayer !
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Of course it would, once you’d repaired the years of damage to the soil that weed killers, insecticides and chemical fertilisers had done to the soil….so, here is a fact, most British farm soils are all but dead….as in dead ! They now rely on being kept artificially alive by chemicals but it’s a zero sum game because eventually, they will be able to sustain nothing even with chemicals. But, nature is a wonderful thing, they can be brought back to life if you want to. Yield and it’s ability to feed in monoculture systems is part of another massive and wider conversation but it ca
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There’s nothing “safe” about glyphosate mate, period !
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The old farmer is a gonk ! Of course you can farm without chemical fertilisers, soil is designed to hold nutrients !
