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It's not Just Joel Salatin anymore
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote: Billy wrote: Sci Am, April 2010 Breaking the Growth Habit by Bill McKibben For the past quarter of a century, despite the rapid spread of massive-scale agribusiness farming, pesticides and genetically engineered crops, the amount of grain per person has been dropping. I assume this means the amount of grain per farm worker working to produce it, is that right? I had imagined that the productivity by this measure climbed very rapidly in the early 20th century and then the rate slowed down with little surges as bigger and more automated combine harvesters, irrigation gear, better strains of grain etc were introduced. So I expected that in the last quarter century it would have levelled off like a diminishing returns curve, I didn't expect it to start going down. Does the author provide any references to where and how this statistic is measured? Does this just relate to the absurdity of the USA corn belt or is it global? What are his reasons for the decline? Have you got the book? David Unfortunatly, no. It came out in April and I am #24 on the waiting list. Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben, Apr 13, 2010 http://www.amazon.com/Eaarth-Making-...805090568/ref= sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282538531&sr=1-1 I'm in the middle of a movie (Vitus). I'll get back soon. But the answer is humus. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html |
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