![]() Only microbes can do that-microbes that those chemicals generally kill-and these companies need something to sell and someone to sell it to (even if the best biologicals can just as easily be propagated in a pile of kitchen scraps). Why? Because they know now, or are conceding, that chemicals can’t grow plants. Meanwhile, the companies who sold farmers on chemical farming are now investing heavily in “agricultural microbials” or “biologicals”. The number of those farmers, however, continues to slowly decline, because they are unable to find replacements, unable to make ends meet, or simply aging out. According to the last census (and likely for the next one as well) farmers are still using lots of chemicals-sure. It starts with witnessing the beginning of the end of chemical agriculture. Indeed, we are in our Belle Époque, our Golden Age, our Renaissance. ![]() ![]() And in 100 years, possibly for the rest of humanity, the future will look back on the period of time we are in right now as one of the greatest eras of agriculture. When you look back at 1400s Florence, or 1500s Netherlands, or Paris in the 1920s, you see extraordinary blooms of creativity and invention in relatively small periods of time, the effects and inspirations from which still reverberate today. ![]()
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