Comment by 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")