Norman Borlaug is rightly credited as the father of the Green Revolution that saved a billion lives, but plant-breeder Orville Vogel, is the grandfather.
In the past 30 years, China has achieved dramatic results in agriculture, science and technology, much of it due to stolen technology from the U.S.
There are 18,000 digital coin programs worldwide using blockchains to secure transactions. and all together, these data centers’ use of electricity and cooling water is tremendous.
Biochar very valuable for tropical soils that rapidly lose nutrients to rainfall, as well as for arid farmland, where storing water is crucial.
Payments for soil organic carbon sequestering should be made on management systems, not actual SOC tests, which are unreliable and timely.
Society needs to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, but there is no problem using some farmland for fuel production so long as the world is well-fed.
Agricultural pundits who have no direct ag experience keep harping that farms must be reduced in size. Why does efficiency have to take a backseat in ag?
No one outside of agriculture seems to understand the carbon cycle as it relates to agriculture. Even when “industrialized,” corn is a net carbon sink, and a huge wealth generator for the economy.
Crops take up and sequester tremendous amounts of CO2 through photosynthesis, incorporating it into plant tissue and seeds, providing food and significant new wealth to the economy.
Perennial wheat — harvested year after year without replanting, thus saving energy and CO2 emissions — is lauded as an aid to a hungry and warming planet.