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biodiversity and soil health (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's agriculture, there's always profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brandt_(farmer)

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Brandt experimented with different combinations and species of cover crops, such as radishes and sunflowers, to improve crop yield and improve soil quality. As a result of these cover crops, Brandt was able to cut back on commercial nitrogen additives, which also saved money. Additionally, Brandt saw less mold and blight and fewer insects among his crops, to the point that he was able to reduce or stop using fungicide, herbicide, and insecticide on parts of the farm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's agriculture, there's always profit.

And there’s where I stopped reading. Farming is not an easy business to make money at. How is anyone going to pay for the cost of hand harvesting rye grass?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yep absolutely no hand-harvested crops, just unheard of, nobody makes any money farming those

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

High value crops like fruit, sure.

Cheap grain crops, you’re outta your mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's agriculture, there's always prprofit.

This depends on to many factors to be universally true. Farming is so incredibly complex, that you can not make such a general statement. If you produce high profit crops for niece markets its much easier to make a profit. However, the whole conventional meat and milk industry is usually running at a loss (at least it has been since about 1-2 years ago where prices skyrocketed and still rise). It also vastly depends on where you are, what machines do you use, what's the quality of your soil etc.

No one goes into farming, because its easy cash. Farming is only easy cach when you are experienced and grow to massive sizes. All the small to medium scale farms are usually barely profitable or are running at a loss due to low prices (the price that the farmer receives for the product).