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Since the early 1960s farmers have beenurged to adopt some form of conservationtillage to save the planet’s soil, to reduce theamount of fossil fuels burnt in growingfood, to reduce runoff pollution of our waterways,to reduce wind erosion and air qualitydegradation and a host of other nobleand genuine causes. Charles Little in GreenFields Forever (1987) epitomized the genuineenthusiasm most conservationists havefor the technique. But early farmer experience,especially with no-tillage, suggestedthat adopting such techniques would resultin greater short-term risk of reduced seedlingemergence, crop yield or, worse, cropfailure, which they were being asked toaccept for the long-term gains outlined above.Farmers of today were unlikely to seemany short-term benefits of their conservationpractices. Leaving a legacy of betterland for future generations was one thing,but the short-term reality of feeding thepresent generation and making a livingwas quite another. Not unreasonably, shorttermexpediency often took priority.Although some countries already produce
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