They can get healthy crops by putting manure (cow/horse poo) in the soil in which the crops are grown.
Because of how healthy the crops were compared to other unhealthy alternatives
Phosphate is used by farmers in fertilizers for healthy growth of plants and/or crops.
Farmers diversified their crops
Tenant farmers grew a large variety of crops.
Commercial Farmers raise their crops for this purpose.
This maintains the soil fertility, so the farmer can continue to grow nutritious crops and healthy crops. Farmers turn to fertilizers because these substances contain plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. ... By testing their soil, farmers know which nutrients—and how much—to apply to the soil.
farmers eat cash crops
Arable farmers
farmers sell the crops to companies and companies sell them to stores and then the stores sell them to us
Western farmers sold wheat and corn as their cash crops.
they were able tobring water to their crops
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