Comments OhioPaul has made

  • Coupla things

    I know you guys like to say things "among friends," but why do you insist on calling synthetic fertilizer "chemical" other than to raise the hackles of the enviro clan? What's applied is N-P-K, and just cause it wasn't pooped out of some animal doesn't make it more or less a chemical than poop.

    Food prices are going up because it's the energy, stupid. Come on. Get on biofuels for legit reasons I can respect. On WaPo's misguided call to scale back the Conservation Reserve Program posted 1 year, 4 months ago 10 Responses

  • Easy, big fella

    A couple of things ...

    "...farmers have few incentives to conserve resources or protect water, air, or soil quality."

    Yeah, all the farmers I know want to wipe out all the wild life, spoil all water and rape all the land so there's nothing for their sons and daughters to inherit. This is a stupid and pompous statement, like farmers are some sort of robots. Go out and meet a few before you say stuff like this.

    "The loss of soil carbon has many adverse consequences for productivity, one of which is to decrease water storage. There are also adverse implications for air and water quality, since carbon dioxide will be released into the air, while excessive nitrogen contributes to the nitrate pollution problem."

    If the greens don't manage to kill Monsanto, they are working on a corn plant that fixes its own nitrogen like soybeans.

    And someone else mentioned that the Midwest doesn't irrigate corn to any great extent, which is true.

    Just railing against some of the nonsense. Tighten up, and maybe give some credit where credit is due.  On More evidence that industrial ag is destroying the planet posted 2 years ago 18 Responses

  • Well done

    This is an interesting story. I'm curious as to how it's sustainable year round? Best ... On Images of a sustainable-food revolution posted 2 years, 1 month ago 3 Responses