Deer and turkey live in the woods. There are plenty of forests between the farms where I am.
There are also plenty of farms that grow food for people. We have huge farms growing potatoes, cabbages, strawberries, and other vegetables. If you eat potato chips from any of the major brands, most likely the potatoes grew within 100 miles or so of my house. The national potato peeling contest is held in my town every year.
I didn't say that every single farmer should row crop their land every single year. I said it should be up to the individual farmers to decide when to let part of their own land lie fallow and rest a year once in a while.
There are individual gardens all over the place here. There are lots of people with chickens in their back yards. My neighbor a couple of doors down has chickens, ducks, sheep, and goats.
One farm can supply potatoes to thousands of people. Distribution and long-term storage are the practical problems. The farms in my area can feed everyone in my area.
Deer are opportunists. If course they go into fields where they exist. I see deer in areas where there no farms for many miles, just woods. The deer eat in the woods, but they also come out and graze on the ditch banks along the roads at night.
All farmers are row cropping, unless they grow livestock and buy all the feed instead of growing their own.
BTW, you're wrong about there being fewer small farmers than large corporate farms. Almost 96% of all farms in the US are family farms. For example, in my county there are farms all over the county, but just one corporate farm. That farm grows mostly corn, which is also edible by people.
Deer and turkey live in the woods. There are plenty of forests between the farms where I am.
There are also plenty of farms that grow food for people. We have huge farms growing potatoes, cabbages, strawberries, and other vegetables. If you eat potato chips from any of the major brands, most likely the potatoes grew within 100 miles or so of my house. The national potato peeling contest is held in my town every year.
I didn't say that every single farmer should row crop their land every single year. I said it should be up to the individual farmers to decide when to let part of their own land lie fallow and rest a year once in a while.
There are individual gardens all over the place here. There are lots of people with chickens in their back yards. My neighbor a couple of doors down has chickens, ducks, sheep, and goats.
One farm can supply potatoes to thousands of people. Distribution and long-term storage are the practical problems. The farms in my area can feed everyone in my area.
Deer are opportunists. If course they go into fields where they exist. I see deer in areas where there no farms for many miles, just woods. The deer eat in the woods, but they also come out and graze on the ditch banks along the roads at night.
All farmers are row cropping, unless they grow livestock and buy all the feed instead of growing their own.
BTW, you're wrong about there being fewer small farmers than large corporate farms. Almost 96% of all farms in the US are family farms. For example, in my county there are farms all over the county, but just one corporate farm. That farm grows mostly corn, which is also edible by people.