Re: FW: Farmers Part of the Global Warming Solution

Roberto Verzola (rverzola@phil.gn.apc.org)
20 May 99 19:13:57

>"A dramatic change in tillage techniques shifted U.S. farm soils from net
>carbon dioxide producers to net accumulators of carbon--in the form of
>valuable soil organic matter. This makes their soils more productive and
>part of the potential global warming solution, rather than part of the

I'm just curious: is it possible that this campaign against tillage is
part of the pesticide industry effort to sell herbicides? After nearly
10,000 years of tilling the soil, I would imagine farmers would have
known if it made the soil less productive. (I am aware, of course, of
Masanobu Fukuoka's no-tillage, "do-nothing" agriculture, but his
approach is part of a total shift in farming that cannot be compared
with "no-till" herbicide farming...).

Roberto Verzola

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