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There's no way to produce anywhere near enough corn with more environmentally friendly, proper crop rotation.
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03-10-2022, 02:14 AM
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Ain't there any crop suitable for rotation with corn also a good source of starch which can serve as an ethanol feedstock?
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03-10-2022, 12:08 PM
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Soybeans are used with a nitrogen fixing bacteria. Yields aren't as high as with fertilizer, but due to the "hazmat" issue, recycled cow, pig, fowl byproducts aren't used like chinese night soil.
Hmm I should try using DEF as a fertilizer.
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03-10-2022, 03:19 PM
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Won’t matter in 30 years as we won’t have any topsoil to grow anything but hemp and tumbleweeds. |
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03-10-2022, 04:38 PM
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I'm good at growing tumble weeds.
DEF is fertilizer.
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03-10-2022, 05:04 PM
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Won’t matter in 30 years as we won’t have any topsoil to grow anything but hemp and tumbleweeds.
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When Jack Herer said 'hemp can save the planet' he wasn't wrong.
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"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction." ~ Bob Marley "I don't know if hemp is going to save the world but it's the only thing that can." ~ Jack Herer " Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet." ~ Jack Herer Back to blog
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I'd miss bamboo, though.
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03-10-2022, 06:01 PM
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Actually it is processed pig pee imported generally from Germany/Europe since we apparently don't have enough of our own. See the packages in the orange store.
This was more of a question of how the application should be processed since i dont know much urea should be applied so as to not kill the plants
If you cant grow tumbleweeds something is seriously wrong
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03-10-2022, 07:59 PM
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I used urea when I lived in maine and that was over 20 years ago. Just don't use too much. Look up recommend pounds or volume per acre or per plant such as for a fruit tree it will be use x amount per inch of trunk diameter and other details on how to apply. For a tree you apply it directly under in the leaf canopy.
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03-11-2022, 12:45 AM
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Urea is widely used as a Nitrogen source for rice plantations. I went to some rice farms and remember seeing urea pellets getting loaded on the hopper of an Ipanema aircraft.
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