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  • Vitamins A and D were found in the 1920's when intensive farming started. These vitamins are added to the feed; animals no longer require exercise and sunlight for growth.
  • Antibiotics arrived in the 1940's, stopping disease from spreading across the animals and increasing productivity.
  • Hormones are put into animals to increase productivity
  • Fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators and pesticides increase productivity but increase pollution and erosion and poison the rivers and the animals living in those rivers
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What is the difference between commercial and intensive farming?

intensive farming is intense. It uses heavy loads of capital, work, and usual lots of pesticides and chemicals. Commercial farming is kind of the same thing its just large scale production of crops. If that makes any sense?


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Intensive farming can happen anywhere, usually where there is a high number of rain to keep the crops healthy, although not too much rain to over water them. It is also common you see intensive farming in areas with good soil, and less polution (away from factories and businesses).


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What would a farmer say about intensive farming?

Intensive farming for a farmer is to take several crops from his farmland in a year. The crop rotation for intensive farming is very important factor to maintain soil fertility also.


Why can labor intensive farming be seen as romantic?

It is due to muddled thinking. Intensive farming is only romantic to those that that do not have to do the work.


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Intensive subsistence farming is the maximization of food production.


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