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southern MN | The question becomes, where does that organic material come from? Nothing is free, in an organic system it seems they add kelp or fish from the sea, or manure from livestock from some other land; or import humus from some other lands.
None of that then is truly sustainable, it is mining one land to grow a crop on another land?
I have a spring swamp that dries up and I harvest hay from it. First cutting is kinda course and may not dry well from all the moisture. Second cutting is wonderful hay.
I feed the first cutting to my cattle in won't er the corn stalk field. They eat half and sleep on the other half of each bale.
It sure adds to my field, but clearly I am taking away from the land that grows the hay.
Interesting how we define these things.
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anybody heard of composting forages to make humus???
