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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

This is critical distinction as to the effect of leaving land exposed of deforestation of overgrazing and the use of the plough and industrialised chemical farming has alter vast amounts of the earths land surface, as the amount of heat reradiated from the surface is = to the surface temperature to the power of 4!

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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

America’s recent history with farming in the Midwest sees a change from horse-and-ploughs to tractors during the 1930s and 40s – especially after World War 2. During the 1980s, more farms were shuttered and many destroyed – buildings torn down and ploughed under for bigger farms to plant even more acres.

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Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

RR2CS

Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. Many of our neighbours who have larger farms — grain and cattle — they’ve had to sell out and move because of flood years, drought years, and this increasingly warming trend we’re seeing.”

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