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Old 09-24-2008, 06:44 PM  
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Originally Posted by donkevlar View Post
Yes. It's not that hard of a concept.

You stack chickens vertically in a warehouse, put cows each in their own cow-size pen and shove chemicals into tomatoes that make them 10x as big and you make a lot more product for a lot cheaper on less land.
well actually it has to do with pests. (insects, weeds and diseases like fungus and blight)
weeds reduce yields big time, unless you pull them by hand
and that costs big money

bugs eat the shit out of crops, so you need insecticides to kill them

same with diseases like fungus and blight, you need fungicides to keep in check or yields go way down

if you never have farmed or raised crops it's hard to visualize

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