Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/898/en

The biodynamic farmer requires, for his soils and crops, the appropriate cultivation implements. A wide range of offerings is available to him on the market. Finding his way among them makes him an experimenter; he searches for criteria of judgment that, in active engagement — through observation and thinking — he can only find for himself. He recognises that the cultivation technology on offer frequently does not correspond to his insights and intentions. The cultivation procedures that, by their function, ought to follow one another in time are compressed by combined heavy machinery — rotary harrow and seed drill coupled together, for instance — or are, for all their high efficiency, oversized — ploughs, for instance. The art of soil cultivation, which fulfils itself as a happening in time, is reduced to mere technical completion-work.