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Originally Posted by The Fonz
How does a warehouse farm operation decrease the amount of chemical sprayed on a conventional farm?
If buddy down the road has a greenhouse, does that mean my 15,000 acre farm is suddenly weed/disease/insect free?
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Because the warehouse farm operation will replace the conventional farm. Especially in the future with the amount of conventional farmland running out. Imagine growing potatoes in a warehouse farm. Every single aspect of the process could be controlled, including how much chemical is used by monitoring everything that happens. Water use could be radically reduced, and conventional potato farmers need a lot of water.
This is a problem for the people selling chemicals and seeds to conventional farms regardless of how you look at it. Modern day farming is extremely inefficient. Not to mention terrible for the environment.