Land plant production. Aquaculture. Livestock production. Who is going to pay?
The critical reality of farming is: I do have to make money. In order to do that I must compete with the others who are doing the same. I must use what the others use, or be left out of the common practices which means I am essentially on my own. Without major investment today, there is no farming for me: because the landlords expect to see “wealth”; so the farmer can pay me. The elevators have been taken over by a tiny few, which means they control the price to suit themselves. The reality of debt, means most of the children cannot stay. Farmer organizations fail; because farmers are too few, as do small towns.
So lets review
- Primary change in plant production is chemicals. Chemicals make the big farmer possible/ without them the big farm fails; because the weeds will overtake them, and cause bankruptcy. Therefore it is the chemicals entirely that made farming plants what it is today.
- Fertilizers made a huge difference in farming; because they made poor ground produce much better! Potash, was thought to be entirely consumed twice now/ but a new area was found each time; that will again run out. Which means you must make plans for when that happens.
- Water supplies are thrown away into ethanol: “its just to soothe farmers”/ and is a tragedy. Water supplies across what was the dust bowl, as in the ogahalla aquifer are nearly depleted and cannot be renewed without a major effort and much time IF, you are lucky. Irrigation must be changed. Critical decisions to combat another dust bowl must occur and be implemented. No water under the ground means you can’t live there. Think about it. Consider the fact once the water supplies are gone or polluted; as the whole world soon will be: chaos will erupt. Chemicals go somewhere, and they do cause other chemicals in the soil to be released and fall into the aquifer as well. IL water survey says: it takes 50 inches of rainfall, to produce a one inch increase in an aquifer.
- Fracking risks the entire water supply, “for a few dollars more”; to a millionaire. Farmers are tiling so much, NOTHING (no water) gets to the aquifer.
- Factory livestock farming is dependent upon antibiotics; which are nearly useless for that purpose now. When they end entirely/ a disease will come, that wipes out an entire industry in less than a year. Which means people will starve/ chaos erupt. Change now.
- Aquaculture needs to move out into the deep ocean/ where a feeding station will keep the fish close by; which a trawler will then pick up.
- Salmon will go extinct if you don’t change the reality of dams. Instead of a turbine wheel/ for the main salmon run: a bucket water wheel will provide a calm simple ride down the dam to the bottom, and still provide electricity. That same bucket wheel can give the salmon a lift up and over the dam, during the return run. The rest of the year it operates with a turbine.
- Instead of constant bid changes in commodities at the elevator. Farming needs one bid per day/ not more than two. As that is all the time the average farmer has to deal with that aspect of the business. Either no more basis bidding/ or it changes to: if I sell for a set amount to deliver next year/ but must take less if you want too; then I deliver that same percentage less grain than I sold, if I want too. And so on.
- Dairy and livestock operations must either remain at a level that does not endanger the environment/ or make the necessary adjustments to protect that environment and its water supplies. Critical stability requires that a distinct herd size shall control the area farming: no more anything goes.
- Every major wet spot goes back to a wetland/ because we must for life’s sake. Every division of square mile for farming must include some ground for wildlife. Every runoff from farming shall be measured to control the drainage at a rate that does not cause major damage downstream. That means retention ponds/ enlargement of ditches/ and so on: you will be charged for excess drainage beyond the limits set.
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