>>598669The article isn't a "what if", i see you just read the title and nothing else. It's literally what the UN says. Industrial agriculture is destroying the top soil.
You have nothing to teach me about soil health. I've been running a small scale organic farm for almost ten years, so your "in-depth" knowledge of cover crops doesn't impress me.
Oh maybe you're one of those rare industrial farmer who actually cares, but you're on in a million then. I live right in the middle of the agricultural wonderland, and let me tell you that those large scale guys care about their soil and the environment just as long as their corn and soy yields are good enough.
So why don't you go organic then, anon?
A large farm in the next village just went organic two years go.
They have 2500 hectares and they don't grow for CSA and markets as I do, they grow wheat and soy and corn. Now they reduced the area they grow in, use much less pesticides (only organic approved ones) and reduce tillage by a fucking lot too. They're not making any less money. Their soil is in better shape than it was a couple of years ago.
Believe what you want, but the current model of agriculture is just full of shit and can't last.
Go back not even a century ago and people worked small scale with horses and shit and with no pesticides and RoundUp. It's been like that for thousands of years.
And don't go about with the usual "feeding the world" bullshit.
The world doesn't need this, and if you really think it does, well you just need to better educate yourself.
Villages and people in third world countries don't need your soy and corn. A lot of their farmers have become stuck in this big industrial agriculture model and now they're just stuck with that.
I have two full-time employees and we feed 200 families in vegetables from mid-june to mid-october. Not just potatoes, everything they need.
How many families do you feed with your agriculture?
Maybe you shouldn't talk shit with your mouth full, anon.
