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any plant matter that comes off a farm it depletes the nutrient base that good soil needs for a proper crop

Who fertilizes the forests? :)

It isn't always what you grow, it is how you grow it.

[RedMonqey]

Who fertilizes the forests? :) It isn't always what you grow, it is how you grow it.

Completely different.

All the timber companies are interested in the main trunks and the rest is left to decompose and recirculate into the next harvest.

Nobody is harvesting all the branches, twigs, dead leaves, and sawdust left behind. In a true forest there are always lesser trees and ground growth that live and die and add to the soil until the trees mature and shut out the sunlight and these species die off..

Only the worst example of clear cutting on steepest of slopes doesn't leave enough coverage to let the next crop regrow. In about twenty years, depending upon the species.


Farms of fields planted with single row crops and anything else is either tilled under or hit with herbicides to kill them. Take the entire plant the grain and the waste product(stalks and leaves) and there goes some of the nutrients needed for futre harvests. Repeat this over the years and farms turn into dustbowls. (Remember the !920's and 30's?)

Sorry