DECLINING DIETARY WORTH IN VEGATABLES AND FRUITS COULD ALSO BE A CONCERN.

For years the talk has raged on about the benefits and downsides of recent farming strategies. Industrial agriculture or “hyper-farming” has resulted in giant strides in crop yield, but many claim nutrient content material – and thus their total nutritional worth to people – has been struggling.

The average yield in terms of bushels per acre for main crops in the US has sky rocketed since the 1950’s. Corn is up 342%! Wheat is up 290% while each Soy beans and Alfalfa are up about a hundred and seventy%. Comparable types of yield good points have occurred in Europe, Australia, Japan and other areas of the world as nicely.

Information offered by researchers from the Department of Soil Sciences at the College of Wisconsin Madison reveals that whereas these nice advances in crop yield have occurred in the …