people increasingly divorced from the land.

[bigpaul]

a lot of farms these days practise what is called "mono cropping" they grow the same crop year after year after year in the same field, the only way this can be done is by the use of artificial fertilisers and chemicals as the ground is sterile, when I was younger farmers practised crop rotation, it was common practise. farms around here are stock farms the only crop they grow is grass.