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Crop Yield Verification
- forkandwait 10y agoCool. But I wonder about calories per acre, and if there is a way to account for necessary crop rotation and soil depletion.
- peokuk 10y agograbbed calorie info from Wolfram Alpha: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z7ROa1oI7H4jQMH1j5csEnOehXOpf0sTjrdnKMnYpPA/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z7ROa1oI7H4jQMH1j5cs... IIRC, crop rotation and soil depletion has a few more variables to account for-- soil type, current nutrients, what you are/aren't willing to fertilize with. Potatoes for example should need 220 lbs nitrogen/yr [1] and soybeans or peanuts should be able to put that back after a year [2]. 1: http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/nutrient/crop_nutrient/potato.html http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/nutrient/crop_nutrient/potat... 2: http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A129/ http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A129/
- infogulch 10y agoA couple additional data points I'd be interested in for both data sets: 1. Average Food Grade. LB that is edible is not the same as LB that could sell on supermarket shelves, unfortunately. :-/ 2. Labor / Acre. Agriculture employs less than 2% of the workforce, I doubt this can go up without major economic problems.