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lawfarms
Posted 3/6/2021 08:28 (#8875822)
Subject: Litter and Sustainability



King City, Mo
So someone in a flower "farmers" group pissed me off this morning. Their ignorance just lit me up. People trashing how farmers farm gets under my skin.

The organic fanatics just hit me wrong and i know it's prob feudal....

So i got to playing around with some numbers and googling questions i had.

Sustainable - able to be maintained at a certain rate or level

Ok so there was 97 million acres of corn in the usa in 2020.

Takes atleast 4 ton of litter to grow a corn crop?

That is 388,000,000 tons of litter

20,000 chickens produce 150 tons of litter

So 388,000,000 tons needed / 150 *20,000 = 51,733,333,333.33333 chickens (your gonna have to stack those chickens higher then 13'9")

51,733,333,333.33333 chickens eat 1.6bu per year = 82773333333.33333bu bushel

82773333333.33333bu / 97 million acres = 853.33 yield per acre needed just to feed the chickens

So how exactly is organic ever going to be "Sustainable" ???

Edited by lawfarms 3/6/2021 10:42
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