“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all … Without proper care for [the soil] we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” – Wendell Berry. 1977. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture.
In this fifth article in my series on the mitigation of risk in farming, I pay attention to climate as one of the key risks, because it affects so many aspects of production. Under ‘climate’, I mean all aspects of the weather, including seasonal changes to temperature, rainfall, solar activity such as hours of sunlight, and issues that affect grazing, such as soil erosion.
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