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Originally Posted by basswipe
Not his ideas but those of actual educated scientists who did many years of thorough research.. Acid rain and nutrient rich run-off from farming were/are two of the biggest reasons for the degredation of inshore striper wintering over breeding grounds then and still some places now.
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when you study the practice of organic farming you find out that your trying to increase the amount of organic matter in the soil which in turn feeds the earth worms that eat that organic matter and they create
HUMUS which by itself (is worm %$%$%$%$e) and can hold
ten times it's weight in water...
this makes for far less run-off of nutrients...which in this case is basically fertilizer which was made origionally from oil and was expensive.
a typical acre of soil which is aproximately 200 feet by 207 feet square can hold a population of a
million earthworms but with farming methods using only chemical fertilizers your lucky to have a population of
10,000 worms per acre.
Our present method of agriculture does little to increase the organic matter for one thing by consistantly tilling under cover crops and then your essentially
MINING the micronutrients and the acid rain keeps lowering the PH making the soil more and more acid which is unsuitable for earthworms where as organic matter gets it back up to neutral....
and so you loose the
tilth ...or the spongy-ness of the soil which prevents the run-off in the first place.....
