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by kickout 6y ago
I also enjoyed the Church community while growing up. It was important and no really 'religious' at the same time. Its hard to replace now that I have my own children. We don't go to church but are most certainly not 'an
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by kickout 6y ago
Great write up OP! Love hearing first hand accounts of the “get big or get out” directive that probably caused many unintended second and third order effects
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Foxconn now looking at building electric cars in WI plant(startribune.com)
1 points by kickout 6y ago|0 comments
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On Sustainability in Agriculture(thinkingagriculture.io)
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Microsoft buys carbon credits from Australian farm(theland.com.au)
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by kickout 6y ago
I'm all too familiar with Fareway. Knowing their budget ethos, no way they are spending $$$ to gleen demographic info.
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Everything Is Broken(tabletmag.com)
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by kickout 6y ago
Unless it a specialty crop like pumpkins or is an organic operation, not a chance this happens with corn or soy farms. Your numbers are good. Total operating costs for a corn acre in 2019 were ~700 dollars. https://www.ers.usda.g
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by kickout 6y ago
I'm only upvoting b/c you clearly have navigated USDA ERS website before... (or google skills are lvl 100) That type of info should be a whole lot easier to access and digest than it currently is.
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by kickout 6y ago
I'm not totally arguing against you. Indoor farming will have its place. I would say land is NOT in demand though, population trends clearly shows people/society migrating towards high density cities as opposed to spreading out wh
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by kickout 6y ago
Always good to see NE residents on HN...one of maybe < 100 i'd guess.
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by kickout 6y ago
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/land-use-land-v... Added: Check out the productivity by switching this to 'Yield per acre' https://observablehq.com/@kickout/usda-nass-ma
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by kickout 6y ago
So blame the lawmakers? Why vilify farmers for taking advantage of a tax code they didn't write? Every other industry does this, so why wouldn't people in agriculture?
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by kickout 6y ago
Those linked articles from the USDA talk about vertical farming for very niche products: fresh greens mostly and possibly some spices. Vertical farming will not be possible to supply the protein, starch, or oil needs of the world. Only larg
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by kickout 6y ago
He/She is claiming classifying farmland as 'fertile' is improper due to the depletion of the natural fertility of soil from intensive farming practices commonly employed in the US today.
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by kickout 6y ago
Very few farms are irrigated (acreage-wise). Aquifer depletion (if it happens) would only affect a small percentage of farms. Most farms are rainfed ETA: About 90% of farms are non-irrigated
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by kickout 6y ago
> Producing more crops in less land is not really more "efficient" I'm open to different definitions of efficiency, but this isn't really in question. HOW they are getting that efficiency (more fertilizer, etc.) we ca
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by kickout 6y ago
Nope, farming using land has free energy (sun) and more room (with nothing else to use it for). As such, its scale and efficiency will always compete well with vertical farming which has considerable more overhead.
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by kickout 6y ago
Hmm...I have this data, I'm going to double check. Need to ensure the linked twitter thread is referring to sales, and not profit. Easy to hid profits in farming (nothing dodgy about it either). No better, no worse than every other ind
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by kickout 6y ago
That hasn't been a dream since the....1900s? 1890s maybe? Homesteading saw its hey-day in the second half of the 1800s. Farming is tough. Margins are low due to the nature of commodities. Very few 'go at it alone' farmers out
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by kickout 6y ago
Well, farming in 2021 is stupidly efficient. Not much efficiency to squeeze out really. The productivity/efficiency has been incredible. Take a look at first set of charts: https://thinkingagriculture.io/what-agricultur
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by kickout 6y ago
No, there are only 330M acres of US farmland according to the USDA: source in blog post sorry https://thinkingagriculture.io/incentivizing-regenerative-ag...
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by kickout 6y ago
Correct, about 330M acres of farmland. Lol, I wouldn't call all 330M prime. Maybe 180-200M are 'prime'. The North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas acres aren't going to win many 'prime' contests. They can produce a
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by kickout 6y ago
240K acres is merely a spec. Especially in the Midwest region of the US. There are ~340 million acres of farmland alone in the US
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Predictions for Agriculture 2020s Decade(thinkingagriculture.io)
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by kickout 6y ago
Double your teams salary to get the cost to the company including benefits like health insurance (which are very real).
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What agriculture has going for it(thinkingagriculture.io)
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Incentivizing Regenerative Agriculture Practices(thinkingagriculture.io)
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by kickout 6y ago
https://thinkingagriculture.io/what-silicon-valley-doesnt-un...
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Decentralizing Agriculture Production in the United States(thinkingagriculture.io)
3 points by kickout 6y ago|2 comments

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