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Looming food crisis,what can uk ag industry do?
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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 8101394" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>What concerns me about reducing inputs across the whole presently cropped area is wasted potential and overhead per ton grown. It takes as much effort and fuel to grow a ton to the acre without nitrogen as it does to grow 3 ton per acre with nitrogen. Cutting nitrogen rates will increase the carbon foot print and cost of each ton grown as most of the inputs will be unchanged. I suppose reducing cropped area to maintain nitrogen rates would be more operationally efficient but then overheads would be spread across less acres.</p><p>The works faced mass starvation around the early 1900’s. The Haber Bosch process saved us. I really can’t see anything replacing it at the moment that will sustain current population levels. By all means we could organic but I reckon we’d need to reduce the population by about 75% first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 8101394, member: 2119"] What concerns me about reducing inputs across the whole presently cropped area is wasted potential and overhead per ton grown. It takes as much effort and fuel to grow a ton to the acre without nitrogen as it does to grow 3 ton per acre with nitrogen. Cutting nitrogen rates will increase the carbon foot print and cost of each ton grown as most of the inputs will be unchanged. I suppose reducing cropped area to maintain nitrogen rates would be more operationally efficient but then overheads would be spread across less acres. The works faced mass starvation around the early 1900’s. The Haber Bosch process saved us. I really can’t see anything replacing it at the moment that will sustain current population levels. By all means we could organic but I reckon we’d need to reduce the population by about 75% first. [/QUOTE]
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