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To: Tax-chick; Silentgypsy
"More immediate benefits of automation and networking in agriculture include water conservation, reductions in pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer use, control of plant diseases and pests ... and lower long-term costs."

Oddly enough, the guy who is supremely interested in getting humans to Mars, and presumably feeding them there, Elon Musk, has a brother who has worked on developing container-shipment sized facilities for growing food under controlled conditions.

I would presume that they will find a way to work together on Mars-colony food-growing procedures. But the goats and chickens are my contribution.

Likely T-c will want to send kudzu. (Woops, there goes another planet lost!)

2,583 posted on 01/22/2020 8:54:52 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; Silentgypsy

The greenhouse was super interesting. They offer many full-time jobs, we all observed, giving our teenagers the stink-eye.


2,584 posted on 01/22/2020 9:21:40 AM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: NicknamedBob

Apparently, someone found a means to control kudzu because it has disappeared from many areas here. You have reminded me to look that up. (Lots of weird stuff pops up when you enter “weed” into the search engine. You have to enter “weed science” to get what you want.)


2,593 posted on 01/22/2020 12:02:31 PM PST by Silentgypsy (Call an addiction hotline and say you're hooked on phonics.)
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