Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.
Monday, November 11, 2013
No-Till Farming
I was going to use a snarky title for this, like urbanites find out about no-till farming, but instead I'll just refer to an article on Wonkblog. From there a link to a Philpott piece on cover crops and no-till. I remember when ASCS offered cost-sharing for cover crops, back in the late 60's, something which was killed by the Nixon administration. (I'm trying to remember what the CED said--he was aggressively promoting the practices, I think for workload, not specifically for the conservation benefits.
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