Message from @neetkthx
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their appeal is organic no-till
the reason jm fortier makes bank is because they can advertise as full organic, they dont even use a tractor to prep beds
im pretty amazed they can make that much food
the really nice thing about a lot of the urban guys, is that you have to grow holistically in those locations or you burn out your soil immediately
your backyard suburban lot doesnt have 200 years of loam in it to suck dry, so you have to take different steps
i mean, the big farm guys could do this too, but its economy of scale
if you have 1000 acres of corn, if you cant get a linear return on investment(money or time), you arent going to do it
these dudes working small land, they dont have the option or manpower to just buy more land and plant more crops
1000 acre guy isnt going to spend 900 bucks to make 905 bucks, not when he can just crank up the john deere cornfucker 9000 and print subsidy money
yeah and only so many people care about organic food
right
and no one really cares about organic corn, or if farmer moneybags used a clean fert or not
chemical ferts arent satan, they're just really easy to use as a crutch
do you think soil erosion is a serious problem on a global scale?
i think that monocropping on a large scale is the underlying concern behind the increaing lack of arribility in US farmland
this falls back to a basically unsolvable governmental issue of farm subsidy
in life, once an easy solution to a problem has been implimented, you're never going to be able to take it away or go back to the hard solution
yeah that sums up a lot of our problems today
the corn subsidy ensures that we have X amount of corn every year, because fuck we eat a lot of corn products
however, we actually get X+Y every year, because that guarenteed money from the subsidy outprices and outcompetes large farms taking risks on other crops
you cant
you cant choose who you subsidize
you are subsidising the crop, not the farmer
this is why there's corn ethanol in your gasoline btw
gotta do something with those doritos that werent
the farmers must be aware of the dangers of monocropping though, are they doing anything about it?
most farmers are up to their fucking eyeballs in debt
oh dang
all they CAN worry about is making payments
arent the farmers also the ones that demand subsities from their representatives?
well yeah, its gibs
but everyone wants gibs from their reps
you gonna vote for someone who says 'fuck this state we live in im going to washington and when they start handing out money im not gonna ask for a cent to help our people out'
its not like your state rep is up on capitol hill with a gun robbing the government
heres the amount of money the government is going to spend on the states this year, you want some of this money or nah?
its money the government has collected from your citizens as tax, after all
shits complicated man
yeah
i dont even know what to think of this problem
other than that our subisities are fucked up