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Slim
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NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote: |
I feel bad that there is such inertia. You only have to watch ploughed soil literally blowing away to see that there's a problem there. How long have we known things like root structures and soil life and hydrology?
Farmers aren't stupid, so where is this pressure to be destructive coming from? |
The costs of your actions have historically been externalized (Just to name one, only recently have lawsuits been brought up to address exessive nitrate in Iowa's water supply, as mentioned in the article) and the cost of building the soil has also been externalized, as it took place many thousands of years ago. At some point along the though process you have to consider the term "mining" as well as farming (much more so if you consider the fertility inputs being extracted from elsewhere)
If I tell you that you can do practices A, B & C and get fantastic yields that help you to keep your family farm running with just you behind the wheel of the tractor, as your kids have headed towards the city, versus practices X, Y & Z which maybe only gives you 75% of the same yields and you're now not sure if you'll turn a profit this year, which do you choose? Our market has been setup to reward A, B, C farming, not X, Y, Z |
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tahir
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