40% of our fertilizer goes to corn/soybeans that go to producing beef and even then,
The majority of fertilizers used for crop production in the U.S. are applied to corn, wheat, and soybeans. USDA survey data suggest that fertilizers used for these crops have accounted for 92%, 94% and 95% of total applications of nitrogen (N), phosphate (P), and potassium (K), respectively, since 2002[1] (National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) Agricultural Chemical Use Program).
I mean outside of wheat, the other two Americans don’t eat directly anyways.
We’d probably be okay with a reduction in fertilizer and like you said went back to crop rotation that small farmers still use where I grew up, actually planted crops for directly eating and of course upheave the entire corporate ag as we know it, I think the impacts to produce would be, I won’t say mitigated, but manageable.
40% of our fertilizer goes to corn/soybeans that go to producing beef and even then,
https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/05/trends-in-fertilizer-use-and-efficiency-in-the-us.html
I mean outside of wheat, the other two Americans don’t eat directly anyways.
We’d probably be okay with a reduction in fertilizer and like you said went back to crop rotation that small farmers still use where I grew up, actually planted crops for directly eating and of course upheave the entire corporate ag as we know it, I think the impacts to produce would be, I won’t say mitigated, but manageable.