Posted by oldtanker on October 18, 2013 at 06:52:19 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: Organic Farming posted by RodInNS on October 18, 2013 at 06:23:28:
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Rod, OK, I'm not organic and don't want to be. But the chemical farming of today isn't long term sustainable. Those chemicals and sprays have to be made out of something and some of those things are a finite resource. Plus the soil needs more than just dry chemical fertilizer in the long run. It needs something put back in it that hold the nutrients in the soil. Manure, green crops plowed back in but something.
Back when conventional farming was the norm, which really isn't that long ago, up through the 70's, before GMO's, the government was buying up surplus and destroying it. So lets not alter history. But CRP wasn't the norm in the early 70's and very few acres were tied up in it. From my farm, one mile in any direction, there is currently over 600 acres in CRP today. There is currently about 32 million acres enrolled in CRP. A lot of other land sits idle. About 1/5 of American land is currently farmed or just over 400 million acres.
Back in the 70's they were breaking 200 BPA corn with hybrids.
I'm trying to look at this from all sides, not just from my billfold.
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