The EU Farm to Fork Strategy to assimilate us!!!

[chuckChuck]

Gabe Brown's model wont work everywhere and on every farm and he never says it will. And the economics of livestock are not an incentive.

But farmers will have to figure out how to farm with less fossil fuel energy inputs and declining non-renewable resources like phosphorous.

So if you can predict how that will look in 25-50-100-200 years, good luck.

[shtferbrains]

I thought you were a farmer Chuck?
You sound like a bureaucrat that thinks you can add the equivalent of a sin tax on the commodities we produce and still supply export markets that require the lowest bid.

What are you planning on producing and who are you going to sell it to?

[furrowtickler]

Integrated animals are key to his system.

There are ways to achieve close to what he is doing without livestock, but for some it’s regarded as snake oils .
I like what wiseguy stated a while back , it was along the lines of foraging your own path . There are other ways to build soil health . DYODD .
Enjoy Easter Sunday , good weather ahead should give lots of time to get equipment ready . Our outdoor shop will be busy revamping the ole Bourgault for a few more years and hopefully many acres yet .
We have another project on the go , hopefully it works out to get 4 products out to the drill at seeding with one unit .
May end up as a make work project but we have the time to try .

[15444]

In Soviet Russia, crop tests you!

[TASFarms]

Do you really think that grain farmers will add cattle to their operation in areas like Rosetown or Regina where it would take seeding good farmland to grass to maintain them?

Do deer,geese,ravens,sparrows,blackbirds,seagulls,rab bits,antelope,moose,coyotes,mice count as livestock?

[Sheepwheat]

Do deer,geese,ravens,sparrows,blackbirds,seagulls,rab bits,antelope,moose,coyotes,mice count as livestock?

Only if you intensively graze them!