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Re:Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status by petree on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:45PM (#27655144)
It can't scale up if it still needs to be produced in the same quantities. It takes a lot of farmland, about 80% in fact, to produce feed for livestock (especially for cattle) even with calorie-dense feed like cereals. You'd have to cut down a lot of forest to make pastures.
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Re:Challenges in the diagnosis of magnesium status by cwkoss on Sunday June 27, 2021 @05:46PM (#27655746)
Permaculture techniques can often support significantly greater density than monoculture, but are often not conducive to machine harvest, so end up being much more labor intensive
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