Re:Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security
by bluGill on Monday May 02, 2022 @04:41PM
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> soil health, nutrition, crop resilience all go up, input and input cost go down, but so does overall yield per acre.
None of those are necessarily true. Sometimes they are, but organic prohibits some farming methods, but non-organic doesn't prohibit anything that organic does that work.
Some of the natural chemicals allowed in organic are worse for the soil than the synthetic counterpart. In some cases there isn't a natural chemical that is allowed and so the farmer resorts to plowing the soil which is a horrible thing to do to the soil, and because of the fuel used more expensive than synthetic chemicals.
Organic has found some useful things, but farmers are adopting them. Farmers have also found useful things that organic is adopting.
None of those are necessarily true. Sometimes they are, but organic prohibits some farming methods, but non-organic doesn't prohibit anything that organic does that work.
Some of the natural chemicals allowed in organic are worse for the soil than the synthetic counterpart. In some cases there isn't a natural chemical that is allowed and so the farmer resorts to plowing the soil which is a horrible thing to do to the soil, and because of the fuel used more expensive than synthetic chemicals.
Organic has found some useful things, but farmers are adopting them. Farmers have also found useful things that organic is adopting.