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<blockquote data-quote="1wlimo" data-source="post: 1566253" data-attributes="member: 16646"><p>There are some real problems with this. The big companies want this as they get control of food. However, nearly all cropped land in the world is seriously degraded. Then UN has predicted that much of this land only has 40 to 60 years production left. If this is true or not? However, there has been no new herbicide developed in the last ten years. So the current trend of GMO's will end. Then there are the other diseases that stop crop production. There is some really productive land that will no longer grow certain crops. Then there is climate change. In the US the dry zone between east and west is moving east. This will reduce the yields of major grain-growing land. If there are more weather pattern changes such as increased drought, rain events then crops get harder to grow. </p><p></p><p>Today we grow food to feed nearly 10 billion people, lots is wasted in the western world. The yield gains that have largely been in corn will flatten out. Wheat and soybeans have made little ground in the last 20 years. Bill Gates pumped vast amounts of money into rice to gain very little. </p><p></p><p>Pasture on the other hand if there is a change from set grazing to rotational grazing can increase productivity and it does not require chemicals. Changing from set grazing to highly intensively managed systems can increase production twice or four fold. Then there is the benefit of increased soil organic matter that reduces the effect of seasonal differences due to the weather. So in order to overcome food production problems in future the best way is to increase the number of animals we graze, which may decrease the price we receive. I just hope that I have become viable and paid down my debt before that happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1wlimo, post: 1566253, member: 16646"] There are some real problems with this. The big companies want this as they get control of food. However, nearly all cropped land in the world is seriously degraded. Then UN has predicted that much of this land only has 40 to 60 years production left. If this is true or not? However, there has been no new herbicide developed in the last ten years. So the current trend of GMO's will end. Then there are the other diseases that stop crop production. There is some really productive land that will no longer grow certain crops. Then there is climate change. In the US the dry zone between east and west is moving east. This will reduce the yields of major grain-growing land. If there are more weather pattern changes such as increased drought, rain events then crops get harder to grow. Today we grow food to feed nearly 10 billion people, lots is wasted in the western world. The yield gains that have largely been in corn will flatten out. Wheat and soybeans have made little ground in the last 20 years. Bill Gates pumped vast amounts of money into rice to gain very little. Pasture on the other hand if there is a change from set grazing to rotational grazing can increase productivity and it does not require chemicals. Changing from set grazing to highly intensively managed systems can increase production twice or four fold. Then there is the benefit of increased soil organic matter that reduces the effect of seasonal differences due to the weather. So in order to overcome food production problems in future the best way is to increase the number of animals we graze, which may decrease the price we receive. I just hope that I have become viable and paid down my debt before that happens. [/QUOTE]
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