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<blockquote data-quote="Rydero" data-source="post: 1662686" data-attributes="member: 38101"><p>Nature's timetable and idea of productivity can't be relied upon all by itself. There's natural systems that are in balance and not very productive by farming standards. Yes there's nutrients to be obtained in natural ways and it absolutely makes sense if you supply them in excess anything that makes it's living supplying that nutrient will die out. I think steps have to be taken to kickstart and trick nature into doing what we want it to do though. A lot of regenerative talk focusses on crop land and all the damage done to it through farming practices. But cattle farms have lots of land not subjected to those practices. Land that's possibly never been tilled, never been sprayed with herbicides or pesticides and never had chemical fertilizer applied - pasture. If all we had to do is leave nature alone wouldn't well managed pasture land be the best land around? As someone who has returned pasture land to cover crops etc and soil tests I can tell you in my case aside from land I fed extensively the soil is as deficient as crop/hayland. </p><p></p><p>I have 3 fields that has had the Haney test done as part of a program and will continue to have it done as long as I continue to grow covers. It's interesting and will be even more so over time as changes occur. It should save some fertilizer on the fields I'll be applying on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rydero, post: 1662686, member: 38101"] Nature's timetable and idea of productivity can't be relied upon all by itself. There's natural systems that are in balance and not very productive by farming standards. Yes there's nutrients to be obtained in natural ways and it absolutely makes sense if you supply them in excess anything that makes it's living supplying that nutrient will die out. I think steps have to be taken to kickstart and trick nature into doing what we want it to do though. A lot of regenerative talk focusses on crop land and all the damage done to it through farming practices. But cattle farms have lots of land not subjected to those practices. Land that's possibly never been tilled, never been sprayed with herbicides or pesticides and never had chemical fertilizer applied - pasture. If all we had to do is leave nature alone wouldn't well managed pasture land be the best land around? As someone who has returned pasture land to cover crops etc and soil tests I can tell you in my case aside from land I fed extensively the soil is as deficient as crop/hayland. I have 3 fields that has had the Haney test done as part of a program and will continue to have it done as long as I continue to grow covers. It's interesting and will be even more so over time as changes occur. It should save some fertilizer on the fields I'll be applying on. [/QUOTE]
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