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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by jcampbell1 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:30PM (#34211740)
I think they are really this ignorant. The tech suburbanite ideas about farming are insane.

Vertical farming is just one of the cringy ideas. Farm underneath solar panels instead of putting the panels on one side of the farm, monocropping is pure evil and farmers are simply stupid for doing it. Grow cover crops so we have to dedicate 50% more land for agriculture.

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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by imtringued on Monday January 02, 2023 @11:38AM (#34219913)
Would you rather grow cover crops or have soil depletion?

Also cover crops don't result in a 50% increase in land usage.

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