bennieandthez

@bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There has to be a balance, we need to understand that as long as we export harvests out of the field we need to import nutrients into the field. We can’t expect plants to naturally replenish the nutrients that we unnaturally extract.

  Also we need to understand that when we introduce heavy machinery into a field, we need heavy machinery to break compaction. Plants and soil organisms simply cannot naturally break the compaction caused by our unnaturally heavy machinery that is heavily concentrated in the small contact area of a tire.

  Some of these dogmatic beliefs lead to “regenerative” farmers being more extractivists than the industrial farmers they demonize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants compete between them for resources, sorry but its idealistic nonsense to claim that they work together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they do, still it’s not sufficient enough to replenish what is needed. Agriculture is an open loop system, it requires external inputs to continue to operate. Without external inputs, agriculture turns into minery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soil requires fertilizer regardless, every harvest you export nutrients out of the soil that need to be replenished. The main purpose of crop rotation is to avoid proliferetion of diseases and pests.