Green house for example: It’ll remove the need for herbicide and pesticide. Reduce water usage by over 80% if done hydroponically. Reduce fuel usage and farming equipment usage and accidents. Crops would be much moar nutrient dense as well as yielding moar. Automated harvesting. Provide many jobs in the greenhouse and hydro industry as well as many business opportunity.
Farming would become moar flexible as you can produce year round, ignoring the seasons, quadrupling productivity. This reduces the need for land to farm, thus, returning it back to nature. Greenhouse would work even in subsaharan Africa so it can potentially ignore geography.
Without the use of pesticide insect population will bounce back, especially the bees. We can turn what was once farmland into fields of wildflowers for the insects. Flora and fauna variety and population would boom.
Table veggies grown in greenhouses are pretty good. But there is a lot more that happens on a farm than growing table vegetables. And most farms only use the water that comes down in the form of rain.
70% of the freshwater we use go into agriculture. Agriculture consume a massive amount of ground water lol. What do you do on a farm that you can’t do in a indoor hydro setting?
I think the idea of moving farming indoors through greenhouses and hydroponics has a lot of potential, especially for high-value crops like leafy greens, herbs, and certain vegetables. However, indoor farming alone may not be able to replace large-scale staple crops like wheat or corn, or address livestock needs. A hybrid approach, combining indoor farming for smaller, high-yield crops with traditional outdoor farming for larger-scale production, could offer the best balance of sustainability, space efficiency, and practicality across the agricultural industry.
We can phase out traditional farming slowly. We’ve been doing the same thing for thousands of years now. Once moved indoor you can produce large scale staple crops year round regardless of the seasons. Its worth it of you can stop the use of herbicide and pesticide.
Farming indoors is going completely the wrong direction. Fine if people can do it and compete but forcing or subsidizing it will incentivize practices that are not sustainable and are not as efficient and beneficial as farming outdoors. Let the market decide
Right. Because growing gmo crops and drenching them in pesticide and herbicide is going in the most bestest direction amiright? Because all the chemicals causing all sorts of issues in the human body is the future. Cool story bro.
Your 70% number might be relevant in California - I do not know. The amount of rain that falls naturally on farms here in Iowa has nothing to do with the amount of water available for humans to drink or wash their cars.
“corn, soy beans, peanuts, bananas, squash, potatoes, pineapples, hay.” These can all be grown hydroponically indoor. You can avoid using pesticide snd herbicide for trees, so there is no need for them to be grown indoor.
“Raise cattle, pigs, sheep, goats.” All ranch are farms but not all farms are ranches. Livestocks are raised on ranches. If you move crop farming indoor then what was once land used for crops can now be used to grow hay for livestocks to graze. Free roaming chickens that get sunlight and feed on insects produce eggs that are exceedingly moar nutrient dense than chickens who are kept in cages all their lives.
Kek farms using only rain water is pretty cartoonish. I love Iowa, and the people there, but Iowa is not the world. You’ve obviously have never even grown a garden, if you did you would know that waiting for rain to water your crop is a bad idea and logic.
General Statistic: Agriculture, including both crop irrigation and livestock watering, consumes about 70% of the world’s freshwater withdrawals. This figure can be attributed largely to crop irrigation.
US Specific Data: In the United States, agriculture is highlighted as a major user of ground and surface water, with irrigation alone accounting for about 42% of the nation’s total freshwater withdrawals in 2015. This underscores the intensive use of water in crop cultivation within the U.S.
Crop Specific Water Use: Different crops have varied water requirements. For instance, growing crops like corn, which is often used for both direct consumption and as livestock feed, or cotton, which requires substantial irrigation, contributes significantly to this high water usage. The mention of cattle feed crops consuming 46% of water diverted from rivers in certain states illustrates how water-intensive these agricultural practices can be.
“ You’ve obviously have never even grown a garden,”. Says city person to farmer.
Grow wheat indoors? How big are the doors to get the combine in?
Listen, veggies and berries are great targets for indoors. Stick with that. The bulk of agriculture now, as always has been, outside with timely rains and hard, hard work.
Im grateful for farmers. My father was a farmer. His father and his fathers father were farmers.
Who says you need a combine. And even if you did, just make one that will fit a combine. Berries amd especially tomato plants are a good start. Now you dont hafta bring in your tomato plants. Kek.
You wanna eat gmo wheat thats fine with me. Cause you’re not going to keep the weeds off your field without an herbicide like glyphosate. Or pesticide like aztrazine for the pests.
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That happens in the large commercial farms. We need to encourage the smaller farms that don’t do those practices. There are many farms that practice restorative farming practices, which includes growing organic crops and animal rotation which improves the soil as well as encourages rain water to be absorbed into the underground aquafers. We need to stop giving farm subsidies to larger farms and open up regulations that will allow small farmers to flourish.