Iowa Farmer Invents 'Cluster Cluck 5000' To Bring Livestock Back To Crop Fields

Take away the solar panels and technology and this is the way farming was for thousands of years. Crops were rotated and every year one third of crop lands were laid fallow. That means that no crops were planted on them and livestock was allowed to graze on and defecate on the land. Tractors pulled special harrows to help break up and scatter the cow pies in more recent days. I also remember picking the corn and then opening the gate so the cows could come in and eat leaves, stalks, and discarded bug eaten ears. It worked fine until agribusiness started planting the same crop, usually corn, in the same location every year and depending on pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers to make a crop.