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Land Use Blog #1
Kara McQuerrey
Land use is becoming a bigger and bigger problem in America especially for agricultural life. This is one of the biggest threats to us right now. In the article I read it talked about how more and more agricultural practices are unsustainable. It also talked about a way to help maintain the local ecosystem and making agricultural production more efficient. Right now it’s causes more and more fertilizers to be used. An example they used to help make agricultural life more efficient was on a coffee farm. They put a coffee farm within one kilometer of an intact tropical forest. This was to use the wild pollinators to boost bean quality and crop yield, and it did by 20%. I think this article helped me realize there was more to land use than there being not enough land to use. It helped show me that there is land out there that can benefit our agricultural need that we don’t even use.
Driving out west there is thousands of acres of land people use just for livestock. The soil is not as rich as it is here but certain crops grow better in different areas. It would definitely help if less land was used for livestock and if it was used more efficiently for something like crops.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you because we are using most of the land for houses and not for our own needs such as food. The picture you chose really fit the blog well!
ReplyDeleteI agree also because we need to use land to benefit us and the environment like the coffee farm did. We need to use land in a way smarter way.
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