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>Don't know where this thinking leads... Maybe that the art
>of farming usually precedes the science. Or that the bigger
>issue is between those who want to dominate/constrain
>agriculture and those who see it as a ever changing art form.
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>jeff (starting to get spring fever)
I suspect it leads to the best farmers being the ones who actually observe
their farms right down to the tiniest details and learn to live with what
they discover rather than being the ones who learn it out of books and
think that if they do what it says in the book they will do as well as the
person who wrote it - who probably did the observation thing, though
frequently one wonders when you read some of the rubbish that gets repeated
from one book to another. Which isn't to say throw away the book but is to
say remember the guy who wrote the book was living on a different patch of
earth
kathryn
