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I have to find the book and accompanied sources, but it's not so much that yields have improved. It's the labor needed to get those yields have decreased dramat

I have to find the book and accompanied sources, but it's not so much that yields have improved. It's the labor needed to get those yields have decreased dramatically. I personally believe that reliance of chemicals to keep weeds, insects, fungus, and bacteria at bay has gone too far. It's fine for targeted use, but today we're just dousing crops to keep the yields up, and feed animals antibiotics "preventively" with the side effect of greatly increased growth.

DubiousPusher 9y ago
Just one example. https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/yieldtrends.html https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/yieldtren... Also, if you truly are bothered by the quantity of chemicals we use in our agriculture, you should strongly support GMOs. A lot of GMO research goes into creating crops that need less and fewer of these chemicals applied.
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