| In organic farming, it is generally accepted that a long-term perspective spanning across the years is necessary for the sustainability of organic field management. This paper analyzes the crossing over of annual boundaries during an organic inspection in an attempt to show how the long-term perspective is learnt in the practical organic vegetable farming. Within the speech turns that refer across the years, two main topics emerged. The first is the nutrient management, which was connected with plant growth and environmental regulations. The second is the sequence of crop rotation, appearing both as a list, detached from the fields, and as a temporal process of the fields. A weed problem, caused by couch grass, was repeatedly referred to by the... |
