Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture
by onlyrealcuzzo on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:17PM
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I'm under the impression that an acre inch of soil weighs ~170k pounds.
So if we're losing .14 inches of topsoil per year - you only need to replace ~23k pounds of topsoil per year. Probably less than half of that needs to be compost.
I'm also assuming loss was worse in the past than it is currently. So you'd need even less compost.
This sounds bad, but not like something that can't be worked around. And honestly, it sounds like it could be a good thing for there to be huge demand for compost.
So if we're losing .14 inches of topsoil per year - you only need to replace ~23k pounds of topsoil per year. Probably less than half of that needs to be compost.
I'm also assuming loss was worse in the past than it is currently. So you'd need even less compost.
This sounds bad, but not like something that can't be worked around. And honestly, it sounds like it could be a good thing for there to be huge demand for compost.