GO f**k YOURSELF SYNGENTA

[Philly]

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[Philly]

Why not just move the soil so you can plant the same crops in the same place each time?

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Moving the soil would be extremely intensive work. Far more than laying down seed.

[John Galt]

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You're a strange but generous benefactor, Galt

[John Galt]

in some places they lay fallow, but i don't see much crop rotation other than small vegetable, fruit and flower farms that some vietnamese people run around me. although i can't really tell if they really rotate or not, there's jsut a bunch of stuff everywhere. i assume, since they work the thing with something little better than a mechanized ox. most farms are industrialized so they can spray fertilizer, but this is in large part a byproduct of our insane food policies in this country (food stamps, subsidies for corn, tariffs on sugar etc). but i don't think GMO really factors one way or another in that.

the major problem is literally downstream as the nitrates from fertilizers create more problems for the gulf than spilling oil everywhere. if corn wasn't so subsidized i think we'd see a different approach

[Darkhorse]

More delicious GMOs for me.

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[John Galt]

fertalizers aren't GMO specific. as you said it fell out of favor decades ago, well before GMO came around. by subsidizing crops on the other hand you encourage people to just farm corn all the time and so it's not profitable to switch.

GMO could encourage crop rotation. i don't think there are roundup ready different plants... that is, lets say you rotate. what would be helpful would be roundup-readyA corn and roundupReadyB potatoes. then you switch and roundupReadyA kills potatoes but not corn and vice versa (you know, weeds). but why even bother, corn gives all the subsidies