Posted by RN on July 26, 2013 at 11:33:32 from (205.213.104.118):
In Reply to: Iowa Farmers posted by NY 986 on July 26, 2013 at 10:55:28:
10 acre field and high density planting, deep tillage, heavy on the plant food-- sounds like the French, Japanese and Italian corn fields. Few years back Rodale Press/Organic Gardening/SmallFarm had a couple articles about the high yields of small European fields practice- was a mention about Iowa farmer and Pensylvania Amish doing some big yields with the same practices- this may have been the Iowa farmer they referred to. Potential yields per acre depend some on potential yield per plant, nutrients available per plant and number of plants per acre- obvious factors there. Now if the vacant lots in Detroit were utilized for the high density planting of corn, veggies with the Chinese and Japanese, French manual labor/small machines the city populace could at least be 1/3- maybe 1/2- fed localy and unemployed youth given something useful to do, this projection based on population density and garden crop growth Paris, Osaka, Naples and the ScrieberGartens of Germany Teasing Alert! Or the corn would be run through the still for home consumption by the felony inclined populace. RN
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