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> a. We will anyway since we're using the land without replenishing it, and No we’re not. Soil management is critical to large scale farms.
by kortilla 3y ago
> a. We will anyway since we're using the land without replenishing it, and
No we’re not. Soil management is critical to large scale farms.
- myshpa 3y agoAnd yet ... Researchers found more than 90 per cent of the conventionally farmed soils in their global study were thinning, and 16 per cent had lifespans of less than a century. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914115905.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914115905.h... Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/12/soil-degradation-costs-us-corn-farmers-half-billion-dollars-every-year https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/12/soil-degradation-c...