Profit margins and prioritising short term gains. :(
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fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I always wondered why we don’t do more polyculture ag
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 day ago
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.
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.
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.
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.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
That makes sense with the technology of the time but I imagine that’s probably changing
queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
We still have people out in the fields picking vegetables. It’s not a solved problem.