Re: Crop rotation In The Fouteenth Century Was ....
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:55 pm
Magoo,
Crop rotation is still practised by organic farmers and was quite widespread in England up until 1945 when the government introduced subsidies for every acre under production. This meant farmers started to use chemicals instead and that the traditional farmers could not compete.
Traditional farmers then were self sufficient and anarchic and the government saw them as a threat. Subsidies were designed to break them. Today many farmers are returning to the old methods of rotation and organic farming. This is what I am doing at the moment.
Mike Freeman.
Crop rotation is still practised by organic farmers and was quite widespread in England up until 1945 when the government introduced subsidies for every acre under production. This meant farmers started to use chemicals instead and that the traditional farmers could not compete.
Traditional farmers then were self sufficient and anarchic and the government saw them as a threat. Subsidies were designed to break them. Today many farmers are returning to the old methods of rotation and organic farming. This is what I am doing at the moment.
Mike Freeman.