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Please see this brief Opinion article in Farmers Guardian (20 January 2018) by John Cherry, Hertfordshire (UK) farmer and Director of Groundswell No-Till Farming Conference, regarding his views about 'the other way to farm'. 

He says: "It may be coincidence, but on our farm we have found since we stopped using insecticides on wheat, our need to pellet for slugs has all but disappeared. We have not been ravaged by barley yellow dwarf virus either". And " We converted to 100 per cent no-till on our arable land seven years ago, after 30 years of trying to beat the land into submission. What started out as a straightforward cost saving exercise soon morphed into an obsession with our soil. This, it seems, is a common side-effect of ‘going no-till’."

He says: "Someone told me the other day farming should be a conversation with nature, not a battle against it, as it is certainly a very valuable ally. "

More at the link:  https://www.fginsight.com/news/dont-miss/opinion-john-cherry-hertfordshire---our-job-as-farmers-is-not-to-feed-the-world

Amir Kassam
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"Our job as farmers is not to feed the world, but to feed our families, make a profit and produce food people want to eat." Great article by John Cherry in the @FarmersGuardian fginsight.com/news/dont-miss…

  




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