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minus-squareFluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 个月前I always wondered why we don’t do more polyculture ag
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 个月前It’s more labor intensive, especially for corn. You can’t just run a big harvester over the field, someone has to go out and pick it.
minus-squareFluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 个月前That makes sense with the technology of the time but I imagine that’s probably changing
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 个月前We still have people out in the fields picking vegetables. It’s not a solved problem.
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 个月前Profit margins and prioritising short term gains. :(
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-22 个月前It’s more the fact that you can really only do handwork on a polyculture field, so it’s completely unsuited for anything but subsistence farming.
minus-squareebolapie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 个月前I like it when food is cheap and I don’t like it when poor people starve to death, shoot me.
minus-squareF_State@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 个月前It’s possible that otherwise good combinations don’t line up in terms of season and require crop rotation as opposed to polyculture.
I always wondered why we don’t do more polyculture ag
It’s more labor intensive, especially for corn. You can’t just run a big harvester over the field, someone has to go out and pick it.
That makes sense with the technology of the time but I imagine that’s probably changing
We still have people out in the fields picking vegetables. It’s not a solved problem.
Profit margins and prioritising short term gains. :(
It’s more the fact that you can really only do handwork on a polyculture field, so it’s completely unsuited for anything but subsistence farming.
I like it when food is cheap and I don’t like it when poor people starve to death, shoot me.
It’s possible that otherwise good combinations don’t line up in terms of season and require crop rotation as opposed to polyculture.