Years ago farmers had a thing called "crop rotation" which helped soil structure, plus they added a lot of humus to the soil in the form of manure, straw, stalks, etc. Now it's the same crop repeated year after year and chemicals added that destroy good bacteria, worms, etc., along with the bad stuff, and chemical fertilizers instead of "natural fertilizers". Yes, this has led to increased yields in the short term, but IMO has destryed the soil long term. When we moved to a small 100 acre farm in Feb. '56, the first few years we got 65 to 75 bu/acre of corn. By the time Dad had been there 10 years with a lotof livestock on the farm, he had it up to 175 bu/acre. Some was no doubt due to improved plants, but most was due to his farming practices. He alsoo had it figuredout that planting more seeds did not mean more corn or beans either... there was a limit to how much you could plant.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family’s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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