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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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The Agricultural Challenge of the 21st Century:  
Feed an expanding population utilizing diminishing resources.

If we peel back the rural veneer of a modern industrial farm, we find smokestacks.
The efficiencies of an industrial farm is tethered to it’s ability to continue to obtain low-cost diesel, electricity and natural-gas-based fertilizers.  
 Is this realistic, and if not, what are the alternatives for feeding the world?
The Brawn of the 20th Century is playing out .  
Time to use our Brains.
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Fertilizer
Resource
Production
Use
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Electricity
Resource
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Fertilizer
(Biological)
Use
Production
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Green Revolution - 1950’s Solutions Using 1950’s Resources.  It’s a New Era
The above link is intended as the opening page comparing old and new thinking.  The links below are also embedded within the above link.

Haber-Bosch Nitrogen Fixation  vs Biological Nitrogen Fixation
Dirt or Soil  (Dead or Alive)
Nitrogen is Nitrogen?  NOT!
Biological Soil Science Basics 1     Biological Soil Science Basics 2
You Break It - You Bought It - Chemical Dependence
Patented Seed   Seed Industry Structure pdf    Industry Cross-Licensing pdf
Grass...(ssshhhhh - it’s perennial!)  Animal or Diesel Harvest?
Monoculture vs Diversity
Brains or Brawn?  Edible Farm Power
Centralized vs Decentralized. Which of these is a pathogen’s paradise?

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Diesel
Resource
Production
Use
Farm Economics - Excerpts from our Newsletters.  
Our newsletters don’t have hyperlinks that bring you directly to the subjects listed below.  Please note the page number when shown.
Wealth - Created on Farms & Mines - Locavore Impact pdf
Biofuels - Scapegoat for Rising Food Prices - 2008 pdf
Deficits, Tax Rates & Wealth Distribution - Money is Like Manure pdf
Life of a Hen -  Farm Accountant’s Perspective - 2011 News pg 3  pdf
Hypothetical Net per Head Earnings - 2011 News pg4 pdf
Animals per Farm vs Net Income - 2010 News pg2-3 pdf
Heritage Farmers - Keystone Species of Heritage Breeds - 2009 News pg 4 pdf
Micro Macro - Keeping the Farm in Play Even if it doesn’t Pay - 2008News pg 4-5 pdf
What Lurks Behind the Burger -  Paradigm Extremes pdf
Surviving Tough Times - Poor-Boy Economics Can Keep Your Nose Above Water pdf
Vertical vs Hortizontal - Environmental Impact of high density monocultures. pdf