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Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by brainzap on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @02:25AM (#27365544)
The initiative includes that farmers have to produce the fodder themself. wtf?
Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by rosetremiere on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:54AM (#27366094)
I'm honestly happy with this part: I'm all for reducing livestock use as much as possible, and the fodder restriction is a nice way to push for this by giving a natural constraint: can't have more livestock than you can feed "by yourself".
Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by tobltobs on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:14AM (#27366212)
I guess the idea is to minimize the amount of slurry per square meter.

"Nitrate exceeds the limit value of 25 mg/l in groundwater at almost 15 % of the monitoring sites across Switzerland. In areas where arable farming is predominant, concentrations are above the limit at more than 40% of the monitoring sites."

Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by herbst on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:30PM (#27396231)
Farming in Switzerland is a completely different, smaller, culture. Think many small farmers working together instead of one or two big farmers per valley