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Paying to find non-GE wild corn?
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:20:56 GMT, "Gordon Couger"
wrote: "Moosh:]" wrote in message .. . On 27 Jul 2003 05:19:55 GMT, Brian Sandle wrote: Jim Webster wrote: "Oz" wrote in message ... Gordon Couger writes "Oz" wrote in message I suspect you may have a problem with jim's climate. It's a rare month indeed when transpiration exceeds precipitation. I wouldn't know what to do with that. I just want to get wells dug that make enough water that I don't care if it rains. Jim just want's field drains and ditches that can take it away quickly.. -- yes, I have land that I will not take cattle on between October and March, even though I can silage it in May. I do find it fascinating reading when everyone is discussing the advantages of no-till and struggling to retain soil moisture, round here ploughing is used to dry the land out a bit. You plough and let the sun and wind take away some of the moisture so you can get a tilth. Funny old world What are various types of trees like at extracting water from the ground? I suppose evergreens keep the sun off the land, but they might shelter animals from wind. I am thinking that the surface area of roots in contact with soil is greater than the area exposed to wind by ploughing. Then the leaves contact the wind. Also the trees could be a crop. You could plant several types of trees, each working better in slightly different conditions. Diversity is much better against troubles. You can have the diversity within each farm, or else you use the govt to buffer against loss as with BSE, or both. I hate to think who will bear the brunt of troubles with the huge GM reduced diversity scheme. The tree idea seems a good one, so long as Jim can keep his family alive with it. How is GM reducing biodiversity? Conventional breeding exploded diversity early on, then refined it to those varieties that the customer required. Where is the problem? If anything it increases biodiversity by being able to put the desirable traits into more crops instead of switching to the one crop that has that trait. For example the potato that was just found with resistant to the blight that depopulated Ireland and still costs millions today can be put in every cultivars instead of developing one resistant strain by conventional methods. But don't let the facts get in the way, Gordon |
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