twostrokenut
Well-Known Member
It takes petrochemicals to grow crops, in an attempt to reduce greenhouse gases there is an extra cost build in just to reduce the amount people use as a deterrent. Unfortunately when you produce food, there is at this stage very little food you can produce without.
When farmers learn to correctly use cover crops the amount of fuel and fertiliser (from the same source), will be greatly reduced. As you basically roll over the cover crop with the front of the tractor and plant seeds in between the chopped over mulch with a planter at the back of the same tractor. Tthe next time you come by is to harvest.
Conventionally if you used tilling, you would have to go over the soil many times in order to have it ready for season.
McCows mostly eat corn.