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What about maize?
by bhaak 6y ago
What about maize?
- Kerrick 6y agoFTA: > In China, we use wheat, corn, and soybeans statistics to represent dryland crops that are grown more or less similarly (and at the very least, very differently from paddy rice). [...] Thus, we say “wheat” for simplicity, but this also includes crops like millet and corn.
- klyrs 6y agoCurious. That omits the Three Sisters, the agricultural practice that I think of when somebody says "maize farming". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)
- catalogia 6y agoI'd wager they're doing crop rotation with corn and soybeans, which is pretty popular in some parts of the US. Soybeans are good for putting nitrogen back in the soil.
- throw0101a 6y agoIf we're talking about pre-industrial systems, this seems to be the way to go: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_four-course_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_four-course_system Learned about it in the book The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch: * https://twitter.com/KnowledgeCiv https://twitter.com/KnowledgeCiv * http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/ http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/
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- thedudeabides5 6y agoAnd a favorite derivative thereof, high fructose corn syrup.
- corysama 6y agoI recall reading an article about this before 2018. IIRC, it said that corn came to Europe a bit late to change the structure of that society. But, it's contribution was to be a high-variance crop where the booms helped a lot and the busts could be covered by reserve stores of wheat.