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Jul 4, 2017 · Farming Plants – A Comparison. A report from the Humane Party analyzes the land-use, efficiency, and profitability of animal farming versus plant farming. The fact that animal agriculture is much more resource intensive than plant agriculture has become fairly well known among animal advocates.
Abstract. Masting, the intermittent and synchronous production of large seed crops, can have profound consequences for plant populations and the food webs that are built on their seeds. For centuries, people have recorded mast crops because of their importance in managing wildlife populations.
- Ian S. Pearse, Andreas P. Wion, Angela D. Gonzalez, Mario B. Pesendorfer, Mario B. Pesendorfer
- 2021
Mar 21, 2024 · Today, farmers with livestock often select cover crops that can be grazed, adding an additional benefit (feed for livestock) and the added advantage of animal manure.
- How Farm Economics Differs from Other Kinds of Economics
- How Did Industrialization Change Farm Economics?
- The Three Stages of The Farming Economy
- Why Do Farmers Face Economic Difficulties?
- What Factors Led to The Growing Economic Crisis in Farming?
- Farm Economics and Statistics
- What Can Advocates do?
Farm economics—the production, distribution, and consumption of agricultural products across globally interconnected supply chains—is unique because of the essential role that food plays in society and the special conditions inherent in agricultural systems. These conditions include the tendency for food production and farming to be politicized: in...
The industrialization of farming began about a century ago, replacing the subsistence and smallholder farms that once fed the US population with large operations that use mechanized processes and chemical fertilizers and pesticides to achieve high outputs of commodity crops. Profits from agricultural products benefit the largest farms, which repres...
Food passes through three stages of economic activity between the farm and the consumer’s table. Each of these stages involves different processes, businesses, and types of labor. Combined, these three stages of the US agricultural economy represent 19.7 million jobs, or 10.3% of US employment.
A key outcome of US farm policies has been to disadvantage small farms. Smaller farms have faced diminishing incomes for years because subsidies and financial relief programs disproportionately benefit the largest farms, whose profits aggregate to corporations and their shareholders. According to the USDA, between 2013 and 2018, farmers’ incomesdec...
The many difficulties facing US farmers have been fueled in large part by industrial animal agriculture, which has reshaped the economic landscape of US agriculture. Vertical integration was first implemented in the 1920s in chicken farming, resulting in higher outputs from lower inputs of labor and land. Over the decades, industrialized animal far...
Farms contributed nearly $135 billionto US gross domestic product in 2020, while on-farm employment accounted for 2.6 million jobs.Crop farming uses 115 million fewer acres of land than animal farming and produces over five times more food by weight than animal agriculture. On a per-acre basis, plant farmingproduces 14,000 pou...In 2020, 329 million acres of land were used for crops in the US. Nearly double that, 654 million acres, were used to raise farmed animals. Worldwide, animal agriculture occupies 83% of agricultura...The US has 74,276 vegetable farms, occupying 4.4 million acres. Animal agriculture is much larger, with 233,770 chicken farmsalone.Supporting farmers is critical to maintaining healthy and nutritious sources of food, providing steady livelihoods for farmers and farmworkers, and preserving natural resources. Plant-based farmingproduces more food using less land and water, contributes far less to climate change and environmental degradation, and provides farmers with better prof...
Nov 7, 2019 · What we’re saying is that a blind animals vs. plants argument entirely misses the point. What is actually crucial, is how we farm, not what we farm. We should be uniting together to create support and demand for food that is grown without the use of environmentally damaging chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
Aug 21, 2014 · This fascinating map from National Geographic shows the proportion of the world’s crops that are grown for direct human consumption (in green) versus all the crops that are grown for animal...
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The worldwide phase out of animal agriculture, combined with a global switch to a plant-based diet, would effectively halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases for 30 years and give humanity more time to end its reliance on fossil fuels, according to a new study by scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Ber...
