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GregWCIL
Posted 11/22/2014 06:42 (#4193506 - in reply to #4192927)
Subject: RE: farmers and climate change


West Central Illinois

Associate professor of "natural resource social science." Quite the mix.

As another poster said, farmers adapt every year. And usually we adapt at light speed compared to researchers. Strip-till was a proven practice on farms by the time universities discovered it.

Ms. Prokopy also paints with a broad brush. For example, she says we need to adapt to more variable weather by planting cover crops and going to longer crop rotations. Really? I guess I missed the specific research that proves that. What happens if your cover crop sucks up your soil moisture and you have a following drought? What if you get this big lush cover crop growing that won't let your ground dry out in a wet spring? I want to see her research.

Where is her research showing which longer crop rotation pays better? What university ag econ department proved that adding oats and meadow pays more bills?

Did she actually help the debate or just give us more reason to be "skeptics?"

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