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A return to mixed farming would bring with it numerous blessings: reduced water pollution, greater agricultural biodiversity, healthier soils, reduced reliance on pesticides and herbicides, more farm jobs and more varied and interesting work.
The problem here is, that we’ve switched from a closed loop system where the waste from the farm house goes into the farm yard and all the phosphorus can recycle, to a linear system where the phosphorus gets mined…
• U.K. Farmers Face Seed Shortage as Spring Planting Set to Surge
• UN says fertiliser crisis is damaging the planet
• ‘Land Grabbing’: Foreign Investors Buy Up Third World Farmland
• King Corn Mowed Down 2 Million Acres of Grassland in 5 Years Flat
