> They will get maybe 30% of the yield a proffeshional farmer would. So we only need three times as many random joes as "proffeshional" farmers to produce the

> They will get maybe 30% of the yield a proffeshional farmer would. So we only need three times as many random joes as "proffeshional" farmers to produce the same amount of food? That's much better than I thought. I agree that without industrialized farming, the food supply is questionable. But the idea that the trouble is in people not having the necessary skills, rather than petrochemical availability, is simply laughable. Agricultural society has existed for tens of thousands of years and people engage in agricultural activity to the extent that it is needed.