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Hi, anyone ever grown animals and crops together?
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<blockquote data-quote="Maxicl" data-source="post: 9022476" data-attributes="member: 182800"><p>Hi, I'm not sure if I'm quite representative of the people around me anyway, but also as you say neither am I in ag, but anyway to answer your question... </p><p></p><p>How did you think it worked? (Growing crops and animals together?)</p><p></p><p>I assumed some farmers would be pure livestock, and some pure plant based, with maybe a few small farm animals, and the minority mixed, due to the specialisation needed to do either job well. As well as that, I thought you sell a specific type of crop to a supermarket (like it's more of a 1 product contract, rather than a farm contract with a supermarket?). </p><p></p><p>My grandparents always had a compost pile for their allotment, and my other great grandmother sometimes collected cow pats for her allotment, or so I'm told.</p><p></p><p>So I'm a bit worried about the plant based move, as it might endanger growing animals, the alternative I read about seeming to be about rewilding, and having natural species thrive in a forest I suppose. Which isn't too bad, as well. But then that means less farms, perhaps a move towards vertical greenhouses, and less self grown food in the UK, or chemical based food. (which is also why I was wondering how sustainable ,i.e. can you sustain it, animal growing is, and how much it relies on food grown elsewhere. ) </p><p></p><p>As well as that one thing I still can't stop mentioning is the cow burp/fart dilema with greenhouse gases. Assuming greenhouse gases do cause global warming, and some other such assumptions, one gets to some questionable topics, like reducing meat farming, or reducing the human population to have less 'cows' but same sort of lifestyle, which are both pretty important resolutions that may cause a while lot of other problems, and so we need to really consider the facts that lead the logic here with great care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxicl, post: 9022476, member: 182800"] Hi, I'm not sure if I'm quite representative of the people around me anyway, but also as you say neither am I in ag, but anyway to answer your question... How did you think it worked? (Growing crops and animals together?) I assumed some farmers would be pure livestock, and some pure plant based, with maybe a few small farm animals, and the minority mixed, due to the specialisation needed to do either job well. As well as that, I thought you sell a specific type of crop to a supermarket (like it's more of a 1 product contract, rather than a farm contract with a supermarket?). My grandparents always had a compost pile for their allotment, and my other great grandmother sometimes collected cow pats for her allotment, or so I'm told. So I'm a bit worried about the plant based move, as it might endanger growing animals, the alternative I read about seeming to be about rewilding, and having natural species thrive in a forest I suppose. Which isn't too bad, as well. But then that means less farms, perhaps a move towards vertical greenhouses, and less self grown food in the UK, or chemical based food. (which is also why I was wondering how sustainable ,i.e. can you sustain it, animal growing is, and how much it relies on food grown elsewhere. ) As well as that one thing I still can't stop mentioning is the cow burp/fart dilema with greenhouse gases. Assuming greenhouse gases do cause global warming, and some other such assumptions, one gets to some questionable topics, like reducing meat farming, or reducing the human population to have less 'cows' but same sort of lifestyle, which are both pretty important resolutions that may cause a while lot of other problems, and so we need to really consider the facts that lead the logic here with great care. [/QUOTE]
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