On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 08:51:07 +0100, Oz
wrote:

Jim Webster writes

Some moron:
I am thinking that the surface area of roots in contact with soil is
greater than the area exposed to wind by ploughing.

Moron.
How do you grow a crop when the land is covered by trees?

Tree crop?

The moisture loss from green grass, trees and open water is similar.

Really? Not in Australia, but then we use trees for lowering water
table -- stopping salination.

The aim is to get a top layer dry enough to work/drill.

Well yes, on bare land, but not if you have a tree crop.

Then the leaves
contact the wind. Also the trees could be a crop.

Not in the UK. Typically the value of small (say 1000T) of standing
timber is approximately zero. Most places the highest value sale is for
firewood.

How about fruit, nuts?

You could plant several types of trees, each working better in slightly
different conditions.

Trees are not rates for moisture loss.

Best we have in Australia.

Diversity is much better against troubles.

Sometimes it is, sometimes not.

If all your crop comes in at top price, but you know about eggs in
baskets. The farmers who have survived here have been the ones who
diversify.

In jims case alternatives to grass are problematic.

Fair enough. it was just a suggestion that has probably been thought
of many times, and rejected.

You can
have the diversity within each farm, or else you use the govt to buffer
against loss as with BSE, or both.

Govt hates to pay farmers anything.
They paid for bse primarily for public health reasons.

Don't they pay you guys for NOT growing crops, like in the US and
Europe?

I hate to think who will bear the brunt
of troubles with the huge GM reduced diversity scheme.

Que?

My comment to a tee. Que? Si!

not in the UK, planting trees is a waste of time and is not economically
viable unless you have an awful lot of land.Plant trees here and you would
drive people off the land

Absolutely. I doubt they would grow very well given your location
anyway. If the wind didn't get them, the salt would.

Abolutely NO tree crop able to be considered?