[Jonty30]

Unfortunately, there is no money in using natural strategies to control weeds and whatever.

[Red6]

It’s always about money.

[pierrem15]

Unfortunately, there is no money in using natural strategies to control weeds and whatever.

That's because it's a lot more work: huge monoculture fields must be broken up into strips interspersed with bug resistant crops, crop rotation instead of fertilizers, etc.

A pre-modern agriculture can only support a pre-modern population. A return to pre-industrial methods would mean a return to working class Americans paying 40-50% of income for food, as was common in the early 20th century.

[redfreedom]

Natural strategies, like summer fallow. Which was purposely leaving a crop land dormant for one year where it would be cultivated a couple times for weed control. Crop rotation was important too.

Now it’s plant every square inch with whatever sells the best and use chemicals for fertilizing and weed control.

Long term use of these chemicals will certainly have negative effects down the road.

[PIF]

there is no money in using natural strategies to control weeds and whatever.
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It not the money - there are no commercially viable natural compound that kills all varieties of weeds [ a weed bring any unwanted plant ].

[catnipman]

“Unfortunately, there is no money in using natural strategies to control weeds and whatever.”

from a practical and economic standpoint, it’s impossible to apply “natural strategies” of weed control to billions of acres of farmland worldwide ...