«When we understand them well and can control them, we should be able to regulate root activity,» just
like modern agriculture has successfully altered activity aboveground, he says.
Not exact matches
They don't deal with the ecological problems of
modern agriculture,
like erosion and lack of soil biodiversity, critics say.
Modern agriculture,
like all of segments of society, is becoming more complex.
If the abundance of
agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed
modern weapons
like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.
And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs
like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both
modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.