Thanks for sharing that @mickvir, we do need to use less chemicals, they only work short term anyways, let's work with nature instead of against it.
There are actually very much that we can do to grow food that is as effective, and in some cases even more effective, than using chemicals.
And many of them are also great at taking CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in the soil, Regenerative Agriculture for example, it's called Carbon Soil Sequestration.
You just grow and graze your land in a way where you use plants and animals in combinations where the result is that you build a very thick layer of topsoil.
That has the effect of storing more CO2 than plowed soil which is not as thick, it also grows a lot better, especially when there is drought or flooding, since it is much better at holding and receiving water.
I agree .
I know there are certain things we need chemicals for, but where we can do it without we should always do so.
Also I did read whilst researching Fipronil that they are monitoring it’s effects at least.
I remember when I was a kid that the farms in the area I live used to have a small flock of sheep and after harvest they would put the sheep into the paddock and they would have different crops at different times of the year.
Now a lot of the farms I drive past just seem to grow the same thing all the time and I don’t see sheep in the paddocks much anymore unless they are sheep farmers of course.
Thanks for sharing,
Have an awesome day!
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Thanks @mickvir, the big farms of today never make the small effort of learning about this, they just buy whatever the big corporations tell them to, but they are actually the ones that could benefit the most since they have the scale to internalize the entire process on their own, while smaller ones are currently using it to outcompete the big ones on the better quality that you get from it, but being small also means that you only have the scale to do everything if you are several farms working together.