Agriculture and Peak Oil

Agriculture and Peak Oil: Agriculture and Peak Oil

We face the massive challenge of bringing our dead soils back to life. Bio-farming takes at least 4 years to enrich the soil, and farmers will need large subsidies and education programs as they move from monoculture or 'one crop' farming to a system of 'crop and cow' rotation.

Crop farmers will need to know livestock, and livestock farmers may need to grow crops. It may even require a significant return of our population to the land to run post oil agriculture, and many suggest that our cities will have to shrink and grow food much more locally.

As they all say, 'Gone are the days of the 3000 mile Caesar salad!'

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For more information about the organisation that produced this excellent but just plain scary article, go to www.fromthewilderness.com"