[coryrc]

Cattle grazing is helpful for fields left fallow, but succession planting is far superior in so many other ways. You can mix plants which repel particular pests with those susceptible to them (and other beneficial strategies), topsoil is grown instead of depleted, flowers are present for wide range of season so bees naturally thrive with food always available, you don't need a significant generator of greenhouse gas running around (cows), and it gets more vegetables per acre so it would be good if vegetables were cheaper because we don't eat enough of them.

I have done succession planting in my home garden, but it's definitely not worth the time investment for the food alone. But it's real neat to see your aphid problem disappear as the nasturtiums pop up without any pesticides needed. You can even feed the world with it, if most everyone wanted to be farmers... (as opposed to some Organic practices which is the same mass farming but the pesticides are "naturally-derived")

[fodkodrasz]

Not all tilled land is suitable for planting, as many are drained swamps. In my home this is a huge problem, as the water circle has been distrupted so much that we are on the way to becoming a desert with climate change compounding on top the the more than a century long draining megaproject nobody is willing to undo due to short term economic interests. Fuck the next generations, I guess...

There are other grazing animals in addition to cows btw, as temperate marshland forest can be grazed by pigs, for example. Also sheep, and goat exist for example.

Vegetable production is nice, but we don't need to work all land. We don't need to produce so much food that we cannot use up meaningfully, just waste or take to places to create overpopulation there also. Reckless industrialism and capitalism are the core barriers to sustainability. (the former includes socialist planned-economical models also, we've seen our part of that also)

[fodkodrasz]

out of edit time: suitable for sustainable planting was what I wanted to express