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Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by imtringued on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:40AM (#32518423)
>2) Most of the places where cows graze grass can NOT support human eatable plant food growing. Only grass can grow there, not eg corn or some grains.

This is completely wrong. You can grow regular crops there but usually the land is sloped, the terrain itself is inaccessible or inconvenient for machinery. There are plenty of Asian countries that do terraced rice farming but this requires massive amounts of manual labor compared to a nice, level and flat piece of land on which tractors and combines can drive on.

Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by mrmlz on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:46AM (#32518458)
No it is not completely wrong.

It is very dependent on geography. The discussion regarding beef/cattle/meat always takes some "global-scale-scope" which is useless since the topology, soil, water etc. is something that almost exclusively determines what is suitable to grow.

You could not, how much you wanted convert the gracing pastures in Sweden to any high-yield farm.

Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by roflyear on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:43AM (#32519811)
My looking at pictures and videos of such fields in Sweden you seem very wrong. Many videos show cows side by side crops and the land looks no different.
Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by mrmlz on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:27AM (#32520685)
Maybe it is about soil composition, something you don't see in a picture?

But sure, keep on looking at a picture of grass and decide that the land is suitable for other crops.

Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by roflyear on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:57AM (#32522626)
Well, when the fields are right next to each other, I dunno. Anyway, I'd rather go on pictures and videos over some random commenter online.
Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by mrmlz on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:32AM (#32548047)
Haha.

The next time you leave for the wilderness, go to a field, go the edge of it and see if you can figure out if there was a reason they didn't expand it further out.

I wouldn't dream of asking you of taking a random commenter at face value.

Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by prawn on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:01AM (#32519537)
Some areas as described by OP are considered desert in Australia. They're above the Goyder Line* and pretty limited in how they can otherwise be exploited by humans. It's hard for people to live there.

(Whether they should be exploited is a different story.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyder%27s_Line

Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by thematrixturtle on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:00AM (#32519924)
Yeah, cattle and sheep farming is hugely destructive to the native Australian environment. But sadly nobody wants to eat kangaroo.
Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by AlbertCory on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:06PM (#32522760)
I've eaten it. Tandoori Kangaroo at a restaurant near The Rocks.

Meh.

Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by upsidesinclude on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:01AM (#32519195)
Great. Go ahead and be a manual laborer then.

You make an argument that has no practical value. And you make it in a way that is offensive.

Yes, if we had slave labor like the 3rd world then we could farm all the mountains.

Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’ by farseer on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:32AM (#32520178)
That is the correct answer, also if I may add: Usually the grazing land also lacks water and means of irrigation required for more valuable nutrition dense crops. Rainfall is only enough for grasses and some limited food crops if you really tried. There is a reason farmers would not touch that land.