On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:29:18 -0000, "Jim Webster"
> wrote:

>
>"Jill" > wrote in message
...
>> Julie wrote:
>>> No Jim that's a blatant lie. When was the last time anyone saw
>>> livestock grazing on a well managed arable farm?
>>>
>>
>> So you agree with all artificial inputs to replenish the land?
>>
>
>of course, the last thing he can cope with is organic agriculture. This
>demands either livestock, or crops which will be ploughed in as green
>manure.
>Unfortunately the year in which the land grows green manure it produces to
>food for humans,

That's what fallow means. As a farmer one would have thought you'd
known this. It works wonders for the soil and it's what farming has
been about for centuries.

>while leaving it down to grass and grazing livestock does

In a world free of the cruel livestock industry that wouldn't happen
anyway so you lose out there as well.