West Virginia University Extension grazing specialist Ed Rayburn has started this collection with D.B. Johnstone-Wallace's 1938 pamphlet Pasture Improvement and Management , a work cited often by Andre Voisin in his classic, Grass Productivity . The Contrary Farmer points out that the predictions of ag economists are far from a sure bet. In the tradition of the Cowboy Poets but with a modern grazier's twist. In our grazing area, New York dairyman Dick Warner sings the praises of pasture in this poem set to the tune of the old spiritual. For more odes to compost, see the Compost Resource Page's Poetry Page .
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From the soil science department at the University of Wisconsin, emeritus professor Francis Hole provides a few samples of his soil poetry and song. Jim Hightower always gets you thinking. Check out his decidedly populist commentaries or tune in to his call-in program via RealAudio. Free subscriptions for the email version, plus back issues archived at N Bar's website. Best viewed in Netscape 3.0 or later.