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Status quo modern farming is reliant on extremely large input of fossil fuels, there is plenty of scope for improvement in this regard. At the moment modern ag
by djrobstep 8y ago
Status quo modern farming is reliant on extremely large input of fossil fuels, there is plenty of scope for improvement in this regard.
At the moment modern agriculture is effectively making food out of oil.
- bobsil1 8y agoElectric tractors/harvesters powered by solar on fallow fields?
- ip26 8y agoYou skipped right past petroleum fertilizer.
- ahje 8y agoThe investment would be quite steep for a farmer that has already taken large loans in order to fund tractors. Many farmers simply don't have the margins. Some still drive around with 40 year-old machinery because buying modern equipment is too expensive. I don't _like_ the proposed idea of farming as a service, but the fact is that I think it's one of the few ways we have to modernize small-scale farms in the less developed parts of the Western World.