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    5 months ago

    If you’ve got the luxury, you can also let fields go fallow and rotate crops to avoid fertilizer. That obviously requires more land though

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        5 months ago

        Does that work long term on a commercial scale without egg shells/ bone meal? Afaik, there needs to be an additional source of calcium, but that could of course also supplement crop rotation/fallowing.

        Though tbf, limestone is very soft and I could see supplementing with ground limestone.