Touring France to Belgium

[Jay-mo]

Make sure you tour a graveyard from the World War(s). Sobering indeed.

Vimy Ridge is incredible.
There's also many tiny cemetery's scattered around Belgium and northern France. I can recall just happening to stop, maybe near Ypre?? Tiny Canadian cemetery, like maybe 10 grave stones, all Canadian servicemen from WW1, Just absolutely perfectly manicured. Such respect still over 100 years later.

[westernvicki]

Farm protests that never hit the news! Farmers must be proactive in defending their industry. We have lost that. In the meantime, the climate cult has permeated the public mind that farmers are elitists who are part of the climate problem; only we can refute this coercion, and we have not.

Travel is so important to understand where we fit in the world.

Thanks for sharing.

[shtferbrains]

The climate change thing was kind of wanning but 50 mph Santa Anna winds blowing a fire right though Malibu beach burning some of the highest priced real estate will get that stirred up to a level never seen before.
Very shocking to see how little can be done when nature can't be controlled.
So very recognizable locations burning .
l have traveled that highway many times.
Millions of people will recognize many of those pictures.

[fjlip]

"how little can be done when nature can't be controlled"

Would C02 Tax control it? Geebow thinks...

[furrowtickler]

Notre Dame in Rouen
An astronomical clock made in the late 1300’s

[westernvicki]

The climate change thing was kind of wanning but 50 mph Santa Anna winds blowing a fire right though Malibu beach burning some of the highest priced real estate will get that stirred up to a level never seen before.
Very shocking to see how little can be done when nature can't be controlled.
So very recognizable locations burning .
l have traveled that highway many times.
Millions of people will recognize many of those pictures.

But is it the cows?

[westernvicki]

Notre Dame in Rouen
An astronomical clock made in the late 1300’s

When the Church was the superpower. Now it's the lenders.

[furrowtickler]

When the Church was the superpower. Now it's the lenders.

Very true
it’s astonishing the power the church had here , not saying good or bad but the structures they built were remarkable, even in today’s standards .

[Landdownunder]

Remember on farm in Germany waldshu/tiengen area driving around with kai. Came to a field maybe 40 acres had one section end to end corn then another fallow then wheat then not sure maybe sunflowers?
Said to kai who had poor English could understand but not speak it very well. Kai why don't you just plant all wheat in the field. No no no Peter you no understand I only rent 10 acres other acres go to different tenants that blew me away so 4 guys farmed 40 acres.
Could be talking crap here but think kai had 1800 acres leased which is huge about half was forest and grazed cattle and sheep. No fertiliser soil that rich. Fungicides something crazy every 10 days and growth retardants on crops

[AlbertaFarmer5]

No till only works on dry land, in uk we need to lose moisture, not save it, thats why we plough.

I am in no position to tell you how to operate your farm. You and your ancestors have a few thousand years more experience in your climate and soil than I do.

But, to play devils advocate, the No till proponents would say that tillage begats tillage.

The compaction created by tillage, and the loss of organic matter reduce permeability, resulting in the need for more tillage to try to solve the problem caused by tillage. A vicious circle.

I farm in the wettest part of western Canada, and adopted no till because trying to do tillage on wet low OM clay soil was such a disaster. It is a bigger benefit on wet years than dry for me.

Wet by Prairie standards obviously does not compare to UK standards. A quick google search indicates many parts of UK getting 2 to 3 times more precipitation than I do.

[Landdownunder]

We had an exchange guy here once from UK moisture is least of our crop growing woes. Water was 1 metre underground roots used to tap into it. Gov intervention biggest crisis and greens

[hedgehog]

Visit the nova scotia monument on the somme.
it has big statue of a moose.
hundreds of men mown down for a few yards of dirt

[sumdumguy]

I’m sure if Newsom put a tax on builds in the forest the fires could be stopped.