Conservation agriculture

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

With you it has become so elementary that we could anticipate all your posts over several years ...

[Janic]

izmentrop

However, around my house, things are moving slowly. Plowing is less systematic and biomaxes begin to spread.
A good example in Belgium https://agriculture-de-conservation.com ... greens.html

that is to say by copying on the more than organic having already a century of existence! Wouahhh what a discovery! But still continuing to serve the soup with synthetic chemicals.
another little effort of conscience and they will go organic!

[izentrop]

Well synthesized except that the most difficult will be to recover the phosphorus of humans lost at the bottom of the seas
Could France totally do without chemical fertilizers? https://www.lemonde.fr/videos/video/202 ... 69088.html

[Janic]

as bad as usual. France has never intended to feed the whole world by impoverishing itself with its exports which represent 50% of cereals. This is madness!

[VetusLignum]

Soil conservation/regeneration becomes mainstream

[VetusLignum]

Perhaps a first step towards a change of outlook on the cow, moving from a contributor to global warming (via its "emissions"), to a contributor to the storage of carbon in the soil?

[izentrop]

Special case of a humid climate all year round and no very cold period to leave the animals on the grass all year round. Suddenly, the fertilization is done automatically by the direct droppings of the cows.

Otherwise all those who have cows have always practiced the rotation of the meadows. He is dividing a single large meadow.
Formerly the breeder had several small meadows surrounded by hedges and moved the cows from one meadow to another. Formerly because livestock farming in France has been on the decline for about forty years and the carbon ends up being destocked when the meadows are cultivated again...

Permanent grasslands store the most carbon because plant roots go deeper and it is mainly root exudates associated with a clay particle that create the most durable carbon storage (4 per thousand).
We see that he has recently planted trees, it's even better because the roots of the trees will explore the ground more deeply.

[humus]

This farmer manages to grow vegetables without a drop of water.
and without mulch!

[izentrop]

Without mulching but hoeing often, a soil that has good water retention, a microclimate?

You need a lot of water for tomatoes... and not too many predators when they are on the ground, not too much rain either.
The few that touched the ground found themselves puffed or rotted, I prefer to take the time to stake them.
He must also select varieties resistant to drought...

In the Paris region, it is easier to sell 5-legged sheep

[Janic]

03/08/22, 09:33

This farmer manages to grow vegetables without a drop of water and without mulching!

Finally a farmer who returns to what should never have been abandoned. Obviously that does not suit the merchants of fertilizers and treatment poisons.