Comment by taeric
10 hours ago
This is a thing that always blows my mind.
The accepted view is a lot like the accepted views to mono-cultures for crops. In that they are bad. The practiced take, though, is quite the opposite? Crops are dominated by mono-cultured fields. And though antibiotics are known not to be used constantly, farms seem to use them at an amazing rate.
I'd love to see a longer exploration of this. Why is it farms seem to be full of practices that we are taught are bad?
> The practiced take, though, is quite the opposite? Crops are dominated by mono-cultured fields.
Not exactly. We have crop rotation because over time a strict mono-culture wasn't very good.
I'm curious on the numbers on this. Every time the general topic comes up, avocados and bananas seem to come up and completely spurn the idea. Googling says 80+% of crops are rotated on a regular basis. Though, it is noted that "cover crops" are sub 10% of rotations. Which seem to be required for fruit farms.
At any rate, I'll be reading more on this some. I have real work I should be doing, after all. :D