Agriculture Questions
High Tech Farming Hydroponics
Low Cost Soil Testing
Agroforestry
Planting Year
GMO Debate
WTO and Agriculture
Robot Ag
Agriculture Classical Texts
Agriculture Technology
Agriculture Water Management
Agriculture Water Quality
Agriculture Weeds
Small Scale Ag Tech
Wendell Berry vs. Earl Butz debate 1977
Sadhguru: Fertilizer companies say you have to remove trees, because if you have trees all the fertilizer will go to the trees.
- but trees provide shade necessary for the soil to retain water
- trees also cut down for cattle grazing
- 300 thousand farmers have committed suicide in the last 12 years. Every 30 minutes a farmer commits suicide in India.
- solution: farmers producers organizations to aggregate irrigation, marketing forces, and value addition
- simple legislative problem: 30% tax on
- save soil policy drafts: https://consciousplanet.org/soil-policy/global-policy-draft
How do saplings grow so tall without nutrients in root plugs?
Billionaires funding tech (see Tech Governance ) solutions at the expense of real political change
Bill Gates - "Always supporting synthetic solutions to world problems. Modifying the genes of plants in a lab isn’t the solution to incorrect farming practices such as mono-cropping. These practices deplete the soil and allow for vastly more efficient spreading of plant diseases. The solution, instead, is to understand how different food crops can be grown together in order to minimize this disease spreading effect and fertilize the soil through natural life cycles. Bill thinks he’s so smart eye roll. All these out-of-touch silver-spoon high society people think they can outsmart nature because they’ve never known it."
Some pesticides are unaltered holocaust nerve gas?
Livermore Farming Plan Notes
Backyard Gardening Experiment
Techniques
Israel Agriculture Miracle
Tilling No Till
Cover Cropping
Seed Balls
Agriculture Weeds
Agriculture Sun Orientation
Biodynamic Agriculture Astrology
Agroecology - university word for permaculture / natural farming
Ethnobotany
Library
Chris Smaje's Small Farm Future
Fruit of Labor
Chelsea Green - New Farmer Library series
Kolisko, Agriculture of Tomorrow, Biodynamic tradition, recced by Rudolf Haushcka
Small is Beautiful
Farm as natural habitat - recced by chinmay
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond - recced by chinmay
Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture - recced by chinmay
Fields of Gold - Financing the Global Land Rush, recced by raj patel
Agriculture Course: The Birth of the Biodynamic Method - Rudolf Steiner
Joel Salatin
https://permacultureindia.org/
Permaculture - A designer's manual - recced by chinmay and oregon
The Biodynamic Treatment of Fruit Trees, Berries and Shrubs - Pfeiffer
Alan Chadwick, student of Steiner, has lectures up here: http://www.alan-chadwick.org/html pages/lectures/urban-gardening-symposium/urban-garden-symposium-1975-part1.html
economics of agriculture:
where does the worlds food grow: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2016/03/21/where-does-the-worlds-food-grow/