From GENE LOGSDON Hardly any new idea in farming holds up in all circumstances for all time. I have learned the hard way not to make grandiose statements about it. I had just about decided, after years of experimentation, that pasture farming— allowing livestock and chickens to graze for their food rather than penning them [...]
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Gene Logsdon: The Achilles Heel In Pasture Farming Is It’s Best Foot Forward
Posted October 5th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Gene Logsdon: Pasture Plants That Poison
Posted August 27th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Poison Hemlock From GENE LOGSDON I was thrown from a horse twice and tried to stop a runaway once when I was a boy, so I am not particularly enamored by the equine breed. But I worry about horses. I’ve been reading about plants that poison livestock and was surprised to learn that for as [...]
Gene Logsdon: What’s Your Game Plan As Corn Prices Skyrocket?
Posted August 26th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON Forgive me for returning to this topic again, but history is being made in the corn market and the mainstream press isn’t paying attention. Corn prices hit an all time high last week. As you pull on your boots and head for the garden or fields for spring planting, what are your [...]
Gene Logsdon: Tired of Tires
Posted August 25th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON The Contrary Farmer Upper Sandusky, Ohio Do you know how many pneumatic rubber tires you own? I bet when you count them up, you’ll be surprised. Even on my little one horse farm, there are 40 tires in use, not counting the ones on the car. And ten percent of them are [...]
Gene Logsdon: Archeology Not Agriculture Teaches Good Farming
Posted August 25th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON I’m thinking lately that a farmer can learn more about sustainable farming from history rather than from current science. Agriculture has been taking giant leaps “forward” and archeology giant leaps “backward,” both with intriguing and absorbing results. Both work under a handicap. Archeology studies a silent past and has to worry that [...]
Gene Logsdon: Archeology Not Agriculture Teaches Good Farming
Posted April 28th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON I’m thinking lately that a farmer can learn more about sustainable farming from history rather than from current science. Agriculture has been taking giant leaps “forward” and archeology giant leaps “backward,” both with intriguing and absorbing results. Both work under a handicap. Archeology studies a silent past and has to worry that [...]
Gene Logsdon: Tired of Tires
Posted April 20th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON The Contrary Farmer Upper Sandusky, Ohio Do you know how many pneumatic rubber tires you own? I bet when you count them up, you’ll be surprised. Even on my little one horse farm, there are 40 tires in use, not counting the ones on the car. And ten percent of them are [...]
Gene Logsdon: What’s Your Game Plan As Corn Prices Skyrocket?
Posted April 13th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON Forgive me for returning to this topic again, but history is being made in the corn market and the mainstream press isn’t paying attention. Corn prices hit an all time high last week. As you pull on your boots and head for the garden or fields for spring planting, what are your [...]
Gene Logsdon: Pasture Plants That Poison
Posted April 6th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Poison Hemlock From GENE LOGSDON I was thrown from a horse twice and tried to stop a runaway once when I was a boy, so I am not particularly enamored by the equine breed. But I worry about horses. I’ve been reading about plants that poison livestock and was surprised to learn that for as [...]
Gene Logsdon: Getting the President To Laugh
Posted March 31st, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON The kind of readers who visit this website may have noticed that one of our heroes, Wendell Berry, made President Obama laugh right out loud the other day. Wendell recently received a National Humanities Medal in Washington, and when the President leaned forward to drape the award over Wendell’s shoulders, the two [...]