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Giving a field a year off and cover crops have been done for hundreds of years by farmers who also till. There are a lot of different combinations of variables

Giving a field a year off and cover crops have been done for hundreds of years by farmers who also till. There are a lot of different combinations of variables done for both tilling and not tilling depending on many factors.

pixl97 6mo ago
Years off don't work great when coupled with high land prices and taxes.
- toast0 6mo ago
  Lots of places give property tax breaks for agricultural land, which includes fallow fields.
  - pixl97 6mo ago
    Correct, the point is getting a $50,000 break doesn't make up that you didn't make $100,000 putting corn on it.
dylan604 6mo ago
> Giving a field a year off and cover crops have been done for hundreds of years Even the old testament talks about letting the land sit fallow for a whole year, so thousands not just hundreds of years.
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