Re:Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
by bluGill on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:51PM
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> You have to plough each year before sowing
You must not be familiar with modern farming. Most farmers do no till these days. They never plow - ever. The first seven years of no till they do see less yields than their counterparts that plow, but after that the advantage of non-distributed soil mean they get better yields. (more profit ever before we account for the fact that plowing uses a lot of expensive fuel)
Nothing is simple, but there is a reason most farms and all the big ones are no or limited till.
You must not be familiar with modern farming. Most farmers do no till these days. They never plow - ever. The first seven years of no till they do see less yields than their counterparts that plow, but after that the advantage of non-distributed soil mean they get better yields. (more profit ever before we account for the fact that plowing uses a lot of expensive fuel)
Nothing is simple, but there is a reason most farms and all the big ones are no or limited till.