What I got out of this is that any organic matter you have needs to go back to the soil, preferably on top of it, to work its own way down. Since i don't have cows anymore, it seemed to me that was the main point of the article. I know about the archaeological biochar finds, but I dont really see an advantage to using the intermediate charcoal step to sequestering carbon. When I did live on a farm, we never grazed our cows in the same place continuously. In fact it was my job "take take the cows to pasture". Sometimes it would be to the woods, and sometimes to the swamps along the river, and sometimes it would just be to one of the hay fields behind our house. My grandfather even rented National Park land along the river to pasture his cows. Doesn't everybody know that cows need pasture? And that they need to be moved from one pasture to another throughout the year?
