I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying.
I am not against farmers. I am comparing commercial farming operations to cattle ranching environmental impact.
A cattle ranch leaves the land pretty much in a natural state with a diversity of plant and animal life as compared to a commercial farming operation where only one plant is grown and no animal or insect life exists for the most part.
“ A cattle ranch leaves the land pretty much in a natural state with a diversity of plant and animal life as compared to a commercial farming operation where only one plant is grown and no animal or insect life exists for the most part.”
A couple of things.
1)When I drive out to Colorado every year, I drive through country that shouldn’t be how crops, grazing is the best use of that land.
2) A Iowa cornfield in the summer is teaming with life.
In the soil and above ground. Current farming techniques are very good. Herbicides are applied in only ounces per acre .