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>The nutrients in soil are a non-renewable resource.

I'm sorry but they actually are. Every time you do tillage you start from scratch. Hence you run out of nutrients much faster than if you used no till. Most of the fertilizer in tillage operations just gets washed away during rain which results in an over application of fertilizer and the runoff results in algae blooms.



No-till and avoiding the use of fungicide, along with proper rotation/leaving the land fallow is the way.

Carefully considered mixed planting can remove the need for pesticides too.

Shits not hard, but trading off the "big yield now" for "yields for longer" requires long term thinking that a lot of people are terrible at.




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