Opinion | How to save the planet through better farming

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Opinion: Fertilizer boosted with ammonia is like steroids for plants. It produces big harvests but is a major factor in climate change. There’s another way.

Synthetic fertilizer boosted with ammonia is like steroids for plants. It superchargers growth to produce big harvests. But the strategy is flawed: plants only absorb about

they’re given via fertilizer, with the rest ending up in waterways or released back into the atmosphere. Is there a climate-conscious alternative? Yes!.” It theorized that if all land used globally for crops and pastures applied regenerative practices, it could sequester more than 100 per cent of our annual anthropogenic carbon emissions and provide other climate benefits..

Remember high school biology? Plants absorb carbon from the atmosphere. As they expire and decay, microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi digest and sequester the carbon. By naturally adding organic material to the soil, microbes get fed and plants get nourished. For example, peas contain nitrogen; by growing, harvesting then rototilling their stems and stocks into the soil, nutrients are supplied for other crops.

 

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Liberal paper as usual towing the line for government

Given the Watermelons' insistence that we need to significantly reduce the population of humans, shouldn't we look with askance at anything they suggest?

Ammonia has been around forever.

No, it's not a major factor in climate change. It is a major factor in feeding people though. You propagandists really do want people to starve, and struggle in every way possible. EnemyOfThePeople

The woke left: Food is too expensive. People are starving. Also the woke left: No more fertilizer. Climate change!

from the WEF climate change is about overpopulation time to get rid of the useless eaters

Population control would make bigger harvests not as important of a necessity. I am not eating bugs

Nonsense

Bull shit

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