>
>> Forage feeding with intensive grazing, utilizing crop residues
>for
>>gestating animals, low cost housing such as port a huts or hoop
>houses,
>>fencing systems, water systems, and forage varieties for hog
>grazing are
>>some of the production practices that the World Bank officials
>should have
>>looked at while in Iowa.
>
>Typical of "Successful Farming" to focus on the Power Porkers. But
>as the Des Moines Register reported it, World Bank visitors were
>most impressed with their visit to the farm of Dick Thompson, who
>is the founder of Practical Farmers of Iowa, a network of farmers
>doing on-farm research for sustainable practices, including hoop
>houses, intensive grazing, and the rest. The officials declared
>that Thompson's soil was better than anything they'd seen here.
>
>Greta Anderson
>
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