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Ill believe it when I see it, cereal crops take an ass ton of nitrogen fertilizer to flourish and that fertilizer takes a lot of energy. Maybe im wrong but I fe
by AngryData 7y ago
Ill believe it when I see it, cereal crops take an ass ton of nitrogen fertilizer to flourish and that fertilizer takes a lot of energy. Maybe im wrong but I feel like increases in nitrogen self-sufficiency will either A. Not be a huge change in fertilizer usage or B. Result in a an overall loss of yield as the energy goes towards nitrogen production. Hopefully im wrong.
The science is good, I just don't think the people using it care enough about good science for that to matter, they will still pump it full of just as much nitrogen before except now they get like .005% higher yield. So they can give their corporate administrators a bonus for utilizing the work and efforts of others and we get jack shit because their object is producing money, not making as much food as possible with the least amount of resources.
- Turing_Machine 7y ago> I just don't think the people using it care enough about good science for that to matter, They care about money. > they will still pump it full of just as much nitrogen before except now they get like .005% higher yield. Why on earth would they do that? Fertilizer is expensive, dude.
- protomyth 7y agoYep, the farmer would be so happy to not have to deal with fertilizer.
- mschuster91 7y ago> Why on earth would they do that? Fertilizer is expensive, dude In Europe we have an utter abundance of fertilizer - we have so many cattle and pigs concentrated in megafarms that we cannot spread their manure any more and have to cart it through half of Europe.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoI think you are being overly critical and paranoid. Legumes do fine and farmers could use less fertilizer if things like wheat could just grab nitrogen out of the air that is 78% nitrogen.