Yes and no……They’re correct in that chemical fertilizers likely have a negative effect on some of the natural processes that we’re trying to produce with microbes and such. However, its not feasible to think that you can take a field we’ve been tilling and using synthetic fertilizers on for years and just go cold turkey without them through the use of cover crops. There’s just nothing there in the soil to fuel those crops in the beginning. It’s got to be a gradual reduction of inputs over time as the soil becomes more fertile. I still don’t know if we’ll ever be able to completely wean off of N if we want to produce the kinds of winter yields many of us need on small acreage to keep up with browsing. It’ll likely always be a little bit of a balancing act for us between different philosophies.