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In reply to the discussion: Turns out those old-fashioned ways of farming were actually pretty smart [View all]pscot
(21,024 posts)28. You need to spend a summer on a working farm
It would clarify your ideas of "labor intensive", and what it takes to produce a high yield, or any yield at all. It's easy to talk about highly diversified farming, but if you're doing a lot of different things, it may prove difficult to do any of them very well. Disclaimer; I'm not a farmer, but I was raised in farm country during a time when one small farmer after another was selling up to developers, mainly because the kids couldn't wait to get away from the daily grind of farm life.
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Turns out those old-fashioned ways of farming were actually pretty smart [View all]
xchrom
Dec 2013
OP
No doubt they were right for their time, and worth exploring again, but that's only half the story.
Geoff R. Casavant
Dec 2013
#2
I read a study which disagreed - that Asian traditional methods had the highest yield
bhikkhu
Dec 2013
#6
Real farmers don't, but mechanized corporations do--Better Living Through Chemistry!
truebluegreen
Dec 2013
#14
You seriously can't follow a well reasoned argument without an outside reference?
kristopher
Dec 2013
#30
If the only factor was pesticide use and species extinction, then that might be a good argument
jeff47
Dec 2013
#8