On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Joel Wilcox <wsjvypbk@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ken Norton <xra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>> A typical rotation is to run beans year one, corn years two and
>>> three, hay
>>> year four and then repeat the rotation.
>>
>> Right. Farmers used to rotate alfalfa and clover in methodically as a
>> natural fertilizer (nitrogen fixing) and make hay from those "fallow"
>> fields of clover or alfalfa.
>
>
> If they're making hay, they're exporting fertility -- unless the end-
> product of the hay is returned to the soil.
I'm not a farmer, but I recall that my grandfather mowed and made hay
once or twice and then plowed it under sometime before planting the
next season. They still seem to do that when they do it at all.
Joel W.
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