• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    10 acres is very very small and is not even a full time job for a person. Are you assuming this is all done without machines? like small hobby farms are all Amish or something? (actually even the Amish farm way more then 10 acres per person, they are not lazy)

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      1 year ago

      (EDITING TO ADD THIS IS WRONG AND I MESSED UP THE CALCULATIONS. IT SHOULD BE 40 TIMES OR SO MORE)

      Also just because this bugs me in a strange way.

      10 acres of land growing wheat produces about 600lbs of harvested wheat a year. That is about 900,000 calories a year. Even of you ate nothing but wheat gruel you would just manage enough food for one person (about 900,000 calories assuming 2500 a day).

      I think like a lot of people you have no idea the scale of farming required to feed the world. Is this why Holodomors happen?

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        1 year ago

        I think 600lbs for 10 acres is very low. That would be 1 bushel per acre. I think 30 bushels per acre is pretty low for current wheat growing areas. Just realized I could look it up and it’s in the middle 40s per acre. So 24000 lbs for 10 acres.

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        1 year ago

        That is an insanely low yield. You should be able to feed at least 1 person per acre with wheat. Other crops like corn and potatoes can have yields that are 2-4x larger from the perspective of calories vs. land use.

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          1 year ago

          You are right I messed up the calculations, I still stand by 10 acres being a small farm.

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        1 year ago

        See the problem here is you think farming means wheat. Did you know vegetable plants exist?