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In reply to the discussion: Mass slaughter of farm animals set to push food prices up 14% [View all]NickB79
(19,240 posts)81. 300 bushels an acre?!?! In your dreams!
The average yield this year is 125 bushels per acre. The BEST fields rarely get beyond 170 bushels per acre in perfect growing conditions. 30 years ago, cornfields were still getting over 100 bushels per acre on average in the US. The average yield for a US cornfield hasn't been 30 bushels per acre since the 1930's! And in the meantime, we've added 6 BILLION people to the planet in the past century.
And in case you haven't noticed, global warming is already starting to play havoc with the weather. Flooding one year, drought the next, spring coming 2 months early and then a cold snap in May, etc. All this is already hurting crop production, and is only going to get far, far worse in the coming years as the ice cap melts away.
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Probably many of the animals have not reached ideal market weight yet, for one thing...
antigone382
Sep 2012
#3
There is a theory that killing off all the cod widened the niche for lobsters
AngryAmish
Sep 2012
#21
If I ever have chickens, it will be in a proper coop with some dirt to run around
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#24
Oh I know all about chicken tractors, too. I have done all kinds of homework over the past
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#43
Many cities don't allow chickens to be privately raised for food within city limits
Orrex
Sep 2012
#9
My next door neighbor has six chickens and had one rooster. Two weekends ago, the red
sad sally
Sep 2012
#65
Don't worry though. You'll be able to drive them to the slaughterhouses using corn-fuel
4th law of robotics
Sep 2012
#12
The yield for corn has gone from 30 bushels an acre to 300!! an acre over past 30 years.
Sunlei
Sep 2012
#13
Supply and demand. If Americans reduced their meat consumption even a little this would balance out.
Exultant Democracy
Sep 2012
#63