Posted by PaulHoule 1 day ago
Note one business opportunity for the regenerative sector could be organic healthy soil production. There's a demand for high-quality soil and this could make the second half of the year productive. This could go well with a mushroom production system integrated with composting.
[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2014/june/double-croppi... [2] https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/conservation-b...
Depends on how you define modern industrial agricilture I guess.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_cropping
“However, only 5% of global rainfed cropland is under multiple cropping, while 40% of global irrigated cropland is under multiple cropping.”
Most farmland is rainfed. Only about ~20% is irrigated globally.
That means less than ~10% of all farmland globally is double-cropped.
Yea, and before the civil war, we didn't have gasoline engines. You are never going to see a broad return to rural farming life ever again.
Forget transportation/energy, our economy is chemically hooked on to it like a coke-addict.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg
If the transition doesn't happen, we're looking at it dropping to 1-5% of its size now.
I hope we do this before we take out the rest of the earth with our cancerous global-scale genocide of everything - animals, plants, cultures, 'different' humans, languages and cultures.
Weird. I had that on my calendar for _last_ century. I wonder what happened?
Replacing fossil fuel use in agriculture is a minor problem compared to replacing it in the economy as a whole.
https://preview.redd.it/every-time-v0-s3c958v8vylc1.jpeg?aut...
> U.S. agriculture production tripled in the latter half of the 20th century, due in part to chemical inputs.
And, yes:
> But that came with an environmental cost — soil degradation, water quality issues and a loss of biodiversity.
I'm not downplaying those costs, and am happy to see a range of approaches. But this is not a serious proposal for feeding folks at scale.
Not to mention, if your land is all but barren and it requires fertilizers to grow, when prices spike or supply disappears and the farmer can’t afford to plant…the output is zero.
It's the bad farming practices that created the situation where the soil was vulnerable.
We're not talking about blame, but rather about determining the direct causes.