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That's why it's wilting down. " He pats the corn plant back into its spot. He mentions that the field appears to have been planted according to an approved conservation plan called reduced tillage. "I expect his plan was, he could work the ground once ahead of planting," he says. "But I don't know that for sure. It looks like that's what he did. "This farmer has a worn-out factory. His topsoil's almost gone. And what he's got left is depleted of organic matter. It's probably uselessbut the farmer doesn't realize it yet.
25 Even in this socially grounded theory, however, we find reference Page 18 to the four-legged stool of technology, agriculture, human needs, and the constraints of nature, as Worster concludes26that "man . . " My own conclusionundoubtedly not shared by Worsteris that the dollar will certainly have its say, but only in a secondary role, since by itself capital does not invent farming systems or create physiological hunger or lift soil from the ground and blow it into the next county. ) about spoiling natural resources does not find support in the wider historical record.
Despite some important successes that have flowed from decades of massive effort to control erosion, the problem is clearly far from under control. Page vii Many of our continuing problems with erosion can be traced back, once again, to tillage-based agriculture. The simple plow, later augmented by moldboard plows, disk harrows, chisel plows, and other tillage implements, helped unshackle humanity from the worst of nature's unpredictabilities and set us on the road to civilization. We should remember this service, while at the same time recognizing a less inspiring side of the plow's legacy.