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- From: "Brigette Leach" <afhg AT ctsmail.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:04:45 -0400
When I we going to stop wasting our time and energy
trying to prove the other side wrong? It seems to me that there are more
useful and productive ways to spend our effort.
The reality is that by 2050 we will need to produce
as much food as we have produced since farming began (10,000 BC). Today
world population is around 6.8 billion people, in 2050 it will be about 9.3
billion. I think that it's going to take everyone of us to meet demand. I've
said it before and I'll say it again, production practices don't need to be
either or, rather all of the above. There is demand for both conventional and
organic, GMO and non-GMO, etc.
U.S. farmers produce 18% of the worlds food using
10% of its farmland. In 1940, 1 American farmer produced enough for 19 people,
in 1970 enough for 73, in 2010 enough for 155. Between 1950 and 2000, average
corn yields grew from 39 bushels per acre to 153 bushels per acre. Average
cereal yield increased 155% between 1961 and 2005. From 1987 to 2007 farmers
grew 40% more corn, 30% more soybeans, and 19% more wheat on the same amount of
farmland. 70% more corn is produced from every pound of fertilizer in 2010 than
in 1970. Farmland soil erosion has been reduced by 43% in the last 20 years.
Today we're using between 50 and 80% less water, depending on the crop. Finding
the balancing point between feeding the world and responsible use of
resources/conservation is just one of our challenges.
Much of what we're arguing back and forth about,
isn't the science involved, but rather our individual value systems. Are my
values more or less "right" than yours? I don't think so. Let's move
on.
Brigette
SW MI
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
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- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Etienne Goyer, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
sals3, 09/19/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Richard Stewart, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Etienne Goyer, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
maury sheets, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Wiediger, Alison, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Andy Fellenz, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, sals3, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Richard Stewart, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Brigette Leach, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, McCormick, Rebecca (Genworth), 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Richard Stewart, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
KAKerby, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Vern and Amy, 09/22/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
sunnfarm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
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[Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Steve Gilman, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Marty Kraft, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
KAKerby, 09/22/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Vern and Amy, 09/22/2011
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