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minus-squareFluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoI always wondered why we don’t do more polyculture ag
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 months agoProfit margins and prioritising short term gains. :(
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoIt’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 months agoI like it when food is cheap and I don’t like it when poor people starve to death, shoot me.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoIt’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 months agoThat makes sense with the technology of the time but I imagine that’s probably changing
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoWe still have people out in the fields picking vegetables. It’s not a solved problem.
I always wondered why we don’t do more polyculture ag
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 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.