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Solar Harvest Farm     Steve & Michelle Heyer  Richie, Sheri & Sarah   7432 Marsh Road, Waterford, WI 53185
Phone: 262-662-5278  ·   Email: solarharvestfarm@yahoo.com     Website: www.solarharvestfarm.com
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Before Haber-Bosch:
Population is commensurate to local soil potential.

During Haber-Bosch:
Population blooms commensurate to fossil fuel stimulation.

After Haber-Bosch:
Inflating Population - (Increasing Demand).
Deflating Soil Productivity - (Diminishing Supply).


Haber-Bosch has been hard on soils.
Soils can be rejuvenated.
Soil restoration will take time.
Soil restoration requires a paradigm shift.

It’s called Biological Nitrogen Fixation.   
Biological Nitrogen has one huge liability...

The existing power structure can’t make money from it.
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20th Century Ag

Haber-Bosch
Nitrogen Fixation


Dirt

Patented Seed



Monoculture

CAFO/Feedlot
Diesel & Coal Power


Centralized

Mining the World
To Feed the World

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21st Century Ag

Biological
Nitrogen Fixation


Soil

Grass
(Yes - Grass)
(Shhh...it’s perennial)


Diversity

Pasture/Paddock
Animal & Solar Power


Decentralized

Sustainable
Carbon Balance
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Norman Borlaug was the right person, in the right place, at the right time”.
That time is now behind us.  


The “Green Revolution” to which Mr. Borlaug is accredited, did indeed feed millions who would have otherwise starved in the aftermath of WWII.  Yet to view these accomplishments through the prism of the mid 20th century as a perpetual prescription for current world symptoms without reapplying 21st century attributes is not only bad science, but indeed reckless.   

The Green Revolution was the product of three primary advancements:  

Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation; Seed hybridization; Excess post-wartime nitrogen capacity.   

The Haber-Bosch process requires copious volumes of natural gas and  electricity in order to produce the fertilizers which have painted the countryside green since Mr. Borlaug’s  early years.  Increased 21st century demand for these fossil fuels in conjunction with decreasing supply reveals the dead end road that industrial agriculture is currently on.  

We can have an intelligent debate in regards to how “long” this dead end road Is.  There is however, no way to have an intelligent discussion debating the sustainability of the present industrial model.   For to state that we are NOT on a dead end road is to believe that the diminishing supply of a finite resource will continue to meet an ever-increasing demand.