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Thank you for making me laugh. The unicorns on the ark hit my funny bone.

I talked to to my nephew and my friend who are both farmers. My nephew runs the family farm. My nephew said he bought fuel early and when he purchased it again it had doubled. He said it is tough but they are biting the bullet.

My farming friend said they bought fuel and fertilizer early but it had double from last year. They were planting the same acreage as last year but the cost is killing them. They were told there might not be enough water and fertilizer. Now here is the great twist. He said they are getting double the yield in wheat and fresh potatoes from last year. God provides. I can’t wait to get my fresh Idaho potatoes. Just a few weeks away.

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Switch from manufactured fertilizer to regenerative farming methods.

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Do you farm? There’s not enough chicken and cow crap in the world to fertilize all the farm ground. Every last bit of it has always been used already.

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My friend has a 6 chicken houses and every 6 weeks a truck comes and picks up all the chicken-crap for around 30-50K. It is a very lucrative production. Then the chickens are sold to market. Land is key and it has be out and away from neighbors, (smell).

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So, then be sure to include horse manure, and raise more farm animals, and use them intelligently in relation to food crops, (along with composting everything else that's possible for fertilizer) which could mean more food production, less hunger. I've read about demonstration farms who do make it work.

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You realize there’s a difference between a demonstration farm and a 5,000 acre row crop operation don’t you? One of them feeds thousands with one man’s labor.

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I love the natural way of farming.

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I listened to that. I want to be a farmer.

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