Farmers are going to have to get smarter like this because the old ways of doing things just aren't going to work anymore.
Also, please plant as much milkweed as possible for the sake of the monarch butterflies.
Laughing at "old ways". The old ways are what they're going back to. What didn't work is the new ways of mono-crop nonsense that wasn't done for millenia before recent memory.
Mega farms need to die.
I meant the old ways for them... but old ways are not enough to feed over 8 billion people either. You need to find a combination of things that used to work that were stopped and new technology. For example, there would just be no way to avoid wide-scale famine without modern fertilization methods.
So what is necessary is to find some sort of happy medium.
And they definitely exist there's loads of ways they can combine smart eco-friendly strategies like this one or mixed crops and economies of scale as well. Solar energy in combination with sheep etc is also good. It requires both good scientific research but also and critically a good implementation and incentives with the farmers in real world conditions.
Been doing no plow, no till gardening for over 20 years. Cheaper, quieter, no exhaust fumes, way less work and way better yields/quality. A round point shovel, a hoe and a 5-tine fork are all the equipment used in my garden. Weeding is rare. Occasional bugs are controlled organically. My inspirations were Masanobu Fukuoka and Ruth Stout.
2025, trump bans flowers. Cuts subsidies for farmers.
Betcha he only cuts subsidies to small farmers, but leaves the billions that conglomerates get.
He will give that “savings” to them. And claim he raised it.
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