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by kickout 5y ago
They are because the risk is so high. This isn't tech and the margins aren't as high as tech. Want to tinker with the tried-and-true methods on turning profit in farming, great: Whoops, I ran into $UNFORESEEN_VARAIBLE and it cost
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by kickout 5y ago
I'm confused. You doubt implementing sustainable practices is difficult or that it doesn't affect the profitability of farmers? I assure you, both are true. Those farmers survive b/c they are basically using unsustainable pra
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by kickout 5y ago
As another comment stated, short term and long term goals need to be balanced. Unfortunately, the margins in ag (USA) are razor thin, so it is difficult (not impossible) to adapt sustainable practices while maintaining top yields. Many sust
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by kickout 5y ago
Correct, and not to sound too obtuse, but your production 'doesn't really matter' in a supply chain sense. Most agriculture production comes from highly scaled, large operations. My goal is to accept this fact, and try to bri
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by kickout 5y ago
Yes, it is possible. Probably just entering a new golden age with genomic tools and excellent metadata on the farms that currently do produce. Plenty of arable land, but ideally we only want the most efficient land in production.
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by kickout 5y ago
Correct, but that data is hard to enumerate and quantify. Long-term sustained contact with decision makers are also a relatively small cabal and notoriously fickle (IMO). It's hard to sell people something new when their margins are ve
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by kickout 5y ago
For farmers, yes, yield is the only goal. All of those things you mentioned are intangible at this point and are not incentivized. We need to restructure the incentives around farming away from a commodity perspective (yield) and more aroun
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by kickout 5y ago
Well stated and I mostly agree
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by kickout 5y ago
Good article, although I need to digest some of the points. I don't necessarily agree with a few points. The highlight for me is one of the last graphs showing a sharp deviation in private sector ag R&D and public sector R&D. P
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by kickout 5y ago
Yo, chill with the assumptions. Nothing about this article/discussion has to do with your comment.
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by kickout 5y ago
Excellent comment.
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by kickout 5y ago
Wow, incredible website packed with tons of pictures and info. I know a lot about genetics and I am impressed at the depth of these phenotypes and elucidation of the genetics. Absolutely perfect for HN
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by kickout 5y ago
I mean, this is like a fanfic comment. Can you cite ONE example of this happening? Maybe in a hyper niche crop, but this is easily a very, very, VERY rare occurrence. Don't know of really any farmers (outside of super small scale organ
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by kickout 5y ago
Not sure how you are concluding machines to day are more simple than they were 40 years ago. If anything, they are 100x more complex with electronics, way more hydraulics, plastics, iron, engine mods to achieve power and efficiency. The &#x
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by kickout 5y ago
Bluntly, yes it is.
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by kickout 5y ago
Did you read it? It clearly noted it
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Sustainability and Competitiveness Within Agriculture(thinkingagriculture.io)
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by kickout 5y ago
Yes, they absolutely do. https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2017/june/understanding...
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by kickout 5y ago
I believe around 50% of that 55M acres are hay/forage/pasture. Nebraska and Colorado are easily top players. I underestimated the delta. Point remains there isn’t a ton a irrigated production for commodity crops (corn/soy&#x2
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by kickout 5y ago
Whoops. Meant to be 10-40 $$, USD per acre. That range seems to be the most common direct payment for farmers to adapt regenerative or sustainable practices on their farm. It depends where in the country and what method is used to determine
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by kickout 5y ago
Indigo and every other ag player. Space saturated quickly. Now people need to find ways to fund the 10-40 per acre benefits long-term...
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by kickout 5y ago
Those costs are known, and outside of California and Nebraska, almost no crops are irrigated. As far as transporting crops to markets? That's actually a success story. Rail hauls most of the crops from Montana to the PNW (if exporting
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by kickout 5y ago
its about 33% of acres of corn that go to ethanol.....this should go away even before electric cars MAKE them go away
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by kickout 5y ago
Fair comments. I'm mulling whether we have enough land (at 100% regen practices). I almost think we do. From a system-level, we're over saturated because of ethanol and other things that realistically could disappear and society w
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by kickout 5y ago
It should be, but isn't for many crops. Commodity crops are incentivized for quantity. Many fruits and vegetables are bred for storage and transportability, not nutritional value or taste. As i've said in other threads we have m
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by kickout 5y ago
I'd say that future is far more distant than you're willing to entertain. California's central valley is a primer candidate not so much because of geographic concerns, but economic ones. Almost everything grown in the Valley
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by kickout 5y ago
It's mostly high margin vegetables and spices. Look up gotham greens for a successul and properly done indoor ag startup. Generally tomatoes and maybe peppers have enough margin and volume to be justify indoor settings. Things like nut
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by kickout 5y ago
Sweet, there is only approximately 300 million acres of cropland in the United States alone. Sun == free, rain == free How does indoor ag plan on scaling up for anything other than super high margin vegetables and spices when their compet
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by kickout 5y ago
Agro-tourism :) This is a very underdeveloped space. The prairie ecosystem is all but extinct. Reviving it and getting tourist to come will be a real thing I believe.
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by kickout 5y ago
Indoor plants require cleaning? Any links to that? first i've heard or seen that statement. I can't imagine ANY justification for literally cleaning a plant that just happens to be grown indoors...?

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