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A New Stragedy to Feed the World
Enter Stage Right ^ | 12/19 2011 | Dennis T. Avery

Posted on 12/24/2011 10:47:13 PM PST by count-your-change

"Can we successfully grow more plants per acre as a future strategy for increasing our crop yields and food production? Sixty thousand corn plants per acre -- twice Iowa's current average -- could be one route to higher productivity. The world will need twice as much food in 2050, and we'll need to triple the crop yields on the best land. Doubling would be a very good start."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: crops; farming
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To: count-your-change

really?

and if there are no imports nor exports?


21 posted on 12/25/2011 1:45:23 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: count-your-change

Why feed usless eaters?


22 posted on 12/25/2011 1:59:12 AM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed

Useless eaters? Who might that be?


23 posted on 12/25/2011 2:28:01 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

Anyone that dosen’t make their oqwn way in this world!

Eliminate all welfare!


24 posted on 12/25/2011 2:33:45 AM PST by dalereed
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To: mamelukesabre

Then we would have no tires, no aluminum cans, airplanes, automobiles, many of the machine tools used in manufacturing...need I go on? O.K., I will...there would also be very little farming done. Really.


25 posted on 12/25/2011 2:42:10 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: dalereed

Let’s see....a ten year old child doesn’t “make his own way” nor does an elderly person unable to work any longer.

Useless eaters, right?

Maybe if you take time to think about it a bit.


26 posted on 12/25/2011 3:01:48 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
Imagine if we were using food to run our cars, the left would go crazy
because of all the starving people in the world.
27 posted on 12/25/2011 3:14:22 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: count-your-change
The earth can feed a lot more people.

What s necessary s for third world countries to use more modern farming techniques.

Using wooden plow behind an ox is not really efficient.

28 posted on 12/25/2011 3:55:55 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Of course there would probably need to be more genetic manipulation. We heard reports this summer of 140 degree temps in the middle of more densely populated corn fields. That, in turn, caused lesser yields.


29 posted on 12/25/2011 5:12:55 AM PST by taterjay
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To: count-your-change

“Useless eaters, right?”

RIGHT, and i’m 74.

The day I can’t totally provide for myself I shouldn’t be taking up space on this planet!


30 posted on 12/25/2011 5:26:57 AM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed

You never have ‘totally provided for yourself’. You don’t make your own clothes or grow your own food or mine the metals you use nor fashion them into useful articles.

If you say that you purchase those things with money then you depend upon others to provide and sell them to you, something they may not always be willing to do.

Cheers!


31 posted on 12/25/2011 6:31:38 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
Surprising that something as simple as a metal plow instead of a wooden one can increase productivity. Consider the many inventions during the 19th. century in farm machinery, combines, corn pickers, threshing machines, planters, better seed varieties,....machines to harvest tree crops, and dig potatoes. Astounding.
32 posted on 12/25/2011 6:51:52 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: MaxMax

Put that ear of corn down, I need to fill up my car.


33 posted on 12/25/2011 7:49:39 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

nonsense


34 posted on 12/25/2011 9:32:56 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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