Gabe Brown did not set out to reform anything. He was a North Dakota rancher who lost four crops in a row to hail and drought, and who could no longer afford the fertilizer, herbicide and machinery the conventional plan demanded. So he started experimenting on his own ground: he stopped tilling, planted mixtures of cover crops, and moved cattle across the land in tight, frequent rotations.
Dirt to Soil is the record of what those experiments taught him. Organic matter rose, water soaked in instead of running off, and his input bills fell while his yields held. Brown explains the agronomy plainly, from soil structure to the roots and microbes that build it, and keeps returning to the test any farmer understands: does it pay?
That is what earns it a place on our shelf. It is agricultural science learned by one man trying things on his own place and keeping honest accounts, which is about as close to Hayek's knowledge of time and place as a farm book gets. Readers who want to measure their own ground the way Brown learned his will find the tools in our Terroir collection.
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