Posted by oldtanker on January 14, 2019 at 07:37:35 from (66.228.255.59):
Don't want to detract from the buying land thread. What is a stake here is the perception of the average consumer living in a urban environment of farming in general. All I typed in was "how much land is used for agriculture in the US" because I was curious. The very first thing that pops up included this.
"The USDA report concludes that urbanization and rural residences (subdivisions) "do not threaten the U.S. cropland base or the level of agricultural production." This does not mean sprawl doesn't have impacts where it occurs. But the notion that sprawl is the greatest threat to biodiversity is absolutely false.
Conclusions that place sprawl ahead of agriculture in terms of biodiversity impacts are due to faulty accounting methods and a general bias that favors agriculture as a "good" use of the land."
So I looked a little more.US farmers plant about 349 million acres of crops each year with only 3 million being used for vegetables. Some 788 million acres are grazed.
"Despite acreage being paved over, malled over or overbuilt with condos, developed land is generally concentrated in and near cities. The loss of farm or ranch land is insignificant compared to the total acreage available in the U.S."
Here is the thing farmers. You can sit here on farm tractor site and argue till the cows come home GMO's, sustainable, organic and everything under the sun. 99% of the US population isn't farmers and the only connection with a farm is what the chew and swallow.So someone throws a scare at them. Says GMO's will make your belly button fall off. So they get on a cell phone or computer and start looking and they find that. They don't read the whole thing, just enough to be dangerous. Then they see something in the news about farmers yelling about urban sprawl. What's their reaction? They think farmers are liars. And if they are lying about urban sprawl what else are they lying about? This is what you have to combat.
For what it's worth, that copy/paste from that report? Was written buy a guy who doesn't think people should eat our animal friends. In the same report he blames farmers for about 65% of the endangered species list too. You farmers and the various farm groups need to fight these people.
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