>
> >Simple crop rotation to avoid pest build up [and the building of soil
> fertility];...as well as manuring
>
Thanks, Chris. Surprising that I missed these. I was so focused on
California, that I completely forgot about my summer pastures in Nevada.
Large-scale commercial agriculture is practiced there, using the above two
practices on a regular basis.
Last season, when I had a putative pesticide kill, and went around talking
to the farmers, I was surprised at how many of them had forsworn pesticides
completely! These were salt-of-the-Earth, conservative, multigeneraltional
farmers, who didn't consider themselves to be "organic" in any way.
Randy Oliver
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