I have a farmable wetlands I can't tile but I can farm the hay off it.
It is 'sustainable' because it is a bowl, and and rains will slowly wash nutrients into that 7 acres. Over time I haul away N,P, and K and micros, but at the same time a small amount washes in from the acres around it.
As well this is a peat bog, it has 6 feet of deep black soil, which was made from decomposing thousands of years of plant matter to build it up.
As such, yes that special spot of mine I can haul hay off of every year and not affect it in my lifetime.
But that is not a normal field. As well the one year the coop guy left the fertilizer on as he made a loop through the grass, as good as my natural grass looks on its own, wow was it taller and rhicker where he got the N on it! So I suspect even when it is nearly as high as my little tractor the grass could do better if I managed it more.
If you haul stuff out, you either need to haul stuff in, or stop harvest for a time to regrow N and organic matter. Either way you end up with less stuff if you are not bringing some versions of fertilizer in.
Not that any which way is 'wrong' I'm perfectly fine with old harvesting a good spot of hay and just managing it as it is, I'm sure he's doing a good job. But its not really what a person can do across the board on all farmed acres and have good results.
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