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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s more labor intensive, especially for corn. You can’t just run a big harvester over the field, someone has to go out and pick it.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That makes sense with the technology of the time but I imagine that’s probably changing

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We still have people out in the fields picking vegetables. It’s not a solved problem.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Profit margins and prioritising short term gains. :(

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And the fact that you can really only do handwork on a polyculture field, so it’s completely unsuited for anything but subsistence farming.

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  • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like it when food is cheap and I don’t like it when poor people starve to death, shoot me.

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• F_State@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s possible that otherwise good combinations don’t line up in terms of season and require crop rotation as opposed to polyculture.

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