I know what you mean
@mshchem and it's the same around here. "Green fields" of monoculture. Where I live, the fields have two shades of green in summer: monoculture grassland and monoculture corn. Both are for beef & dairy. We import soy at a massive scale from Brazil where we chop down rainforest to grow the soy. This soy is then converted by our cows into manure. We have so much manure that only certain types of grass and corn can grow.
Fertilization is more subtle here; they used to use spray tanks as well, but that was banned a few decades ago. I think it was just too visible; we like to shove things under the carpet a bit more so we can pretend that all is well. Nowadays it's injected by arrays of shit injectors into the top soil. This happens to the extent that the soil can no longer bear it and the liquid manure overflows the soil and puddles on the field, or it simply flows in the many brooks/canals that were dug to drain the soil because otherwise the tractors get stuck too often.
We have totally and utterly raped this land. Most people don't realize because it looks green enough, doesn't it, and the cows look happy, too. We passed the mark of unsustainable by around 1965. For the past 60 years we've been living on borrowed time, propping up the system artificially. Sooner or later, some bug will turn up that eats corn faster than the cows can and that will be sufficiently resistant to the gallons of poison we cart onto the fields (so nice, those corn seedlings popping up in April...but hey...how come it's
only corn...?) Something's gotta give.
Maybe at that point ATS will become cheaply available to us photographers because there'll be no other application for it anymore. There will be a brief moment when we get to eat all the cows and can do photography, before hunger sets in.
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