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We can now solve the 10,000-year-old problem of agriculture
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jackson, Wes |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | My beginning fix on native prairie happened during the summer of 9 when I was sixteen. I worked on a ranch near White River, South Dakota, close to the Rosebud Indian Reservation, and lived in the shack pictured in Figure . Years later, I began to grasp the importance of nature's ecosystems. It happened in my own state of Kansas, where we have thousands of acres of prairie ranging from tall to short grass (Figure ). One June day in 977, two friends and I visited a tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills after a drenching rain. On the way home, we saw farmers' fields similar to the one in Figure 3. On the prairie (Figure ), nature's ecosystem is resilient and more or less free of damaging erosion, unlike grain agriculture (Figure 3). Why this is so has to do with what lies below the surface. Figure 4 reveals a network of perennial roots of various structures in prairie soil, whereas Figure provides a contrast between perennials and annuals of closely related species, both in monoculture. On the left is perennial wheatgrass, which we have named KernzaTM. On the right is common annual bread wheat. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/Publications/Reports/nabc_24/24_1_3_Jackson.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
