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Archimedes Plutonium
 
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Now I do not expect any USA farmers with big farms to switch to that of mowing
between rows to eliminate the fertilizer and herbicide steps.

But I do expect small farmers of a few acres to use this method. And especially
Organic-Grown farms. I would expect that Organic Farms would be the first
farmers to switch to a ConcreteBlock farm. Where they use mowing and as they
increase wealth they buy concreteblock to put their farm in more and more order.

I would expect the mowing technique to replace most farms in Europe considering that
the price of petrol in Europe is so vastly higher than the USA.
Not that Europe does not have farm subsidies for it does have subsidies just like
the USA. But as the price of petrol keeps going higher and as the future of
farmsubsidies constantly become eliminated that the farmer will become squeezed into
farming differently.

The reason corn and beans are at an alltime low is because petrolbased farming
is so very easy. When you use billions of gallons of petrol on farming each year
you inevitably have corn and bean bumper surplus crops. If the world, overnight,
was not allowed to use tractors and herbicides and the other thousands of gimmicks
but rather instead, all farming were to revert to 19th century style farming then
corn would be 25 dollars a bushel and there would not exist any
surplus.

But what farmers are going to switch from driving tractors on fields to that of
hand planting and hand harvesting and mowing between their crop rows all
summer? Only the Organic Farmers and only some in Europe where the farms
are smaller in size.

As petrol goes up and as governments wane on subsidies, farming will have
to change to that of Renewable. That means using weeds and grasses as fertilizer and
eliminate herbicides.

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