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<blockquote data-quote="N.Yorks." data-source="post: 7434259" data-attributes="member: 46426"><p>I think you are overlooking the benefits from managing/integrating the farmed environment with natural systems that provide better soil health, natural pest/pathogen reduction, weed control through more considered rotations, IPM. Of course there will be some crop management tech that will aid in finer tuning systems - GPS systems for example.</p><p></p><p>Maximum production will not lead to the best gross margin as we already know. You cannot push the soil beyond it's natural capacity to sustain output - moving to vertical hydroponics is another thing completely.</p><p></p><p>The benefits from diversity are massive - monocultures high risk! Irish potato famine took down a country - they relied on the potato for nutrition but the <em>late blight</em> fungal disease wiped out huge chunks of crop over 5 years. No diversity in potato varieties and no diversity in cropping therefore massive failure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="N.Yorks., post: 7434259, member: 46426"] I think you are overlooking the benefits from managing/integrating the farmed environment with natural systems that provide better soil health, natural pest/pathogen reduction, weed control through more considered rotations, IPM. Of course there will be some crop management tech that will aid in finer tuning systems - GPS systems for example. Maximum production will not lead to the best gross margin as we already know. You cannot push the soil beyond it's natural capacity to sustain output - moving to vertical hydroponics is another thing completely. The benefits from diversity are massive - monocultures high risk! Irish potato famine took down a country - they relied on the potato for nutrition but the [I]late blight[/I] fungal disease wiped out huge chunks of crop over 5 years. No diversity in potato varieties and no diversity in cropping therefore massive failure. [/QUOTE]
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