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Does it matter if it’s fertile though? Isn’t the climate there the limiting factor on ag?
by bix6 1y ago
Does it matter if it’s fertile though? Isn’t the climate there the limiting factor on ag?
- rfrey 1y agoThe short growing season is somewhat offset by the very long summer days.
- cyberax 1y agoYou can grow plenty of food there: wheat, potatoes, apples, cabbage, etc. It's roughly at the same latitude as Moscow.
- orthoxerox 1y agoYes, and no one sane invests into agriculture around Moscow when there's much more warmer and fertile land down south. Factory farms and greenhouses? Yes, certainly, but this is driven by the food demands of a massive metropolis next door: move east or west far enough to offset this benefit and you will see scenes of rural decay.
- decimalenough 1y agoThat's because small-scale farming is not sufficient profitable, not because it's not possible. You can find scenes of rural decay in most any industrialized country.
- cyberax 1y agoPlenty of people invest in agriculture around Moscow. That's why Russia is one of the leaders in food exports. To be fair, the bulk of the most productive Russian agricultural lands actually ends around Moscow's latitude.
- antupis 1y agoIt depends, like here in Finland, there is lots of farmland and active farms, but most is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_continental_climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_continental_climate , Norway also has a lot of farms in subarctic areas like this in the article, but Norway is substituting farming very heavily even European standards.
- decimalenough 1y ago*subsidizing
- mytailorisrich 1y agoBoth Finland and Norway have low population, too, because overall the climate is too harsh for high-yield agriculture.