I've noticed a lot of farmers around South Australia are burning off their crop stubble, like swiddon agriculture, this year.  I don't recall this occurring on such a scale previously.
There seems to be fires I paddocks everywhere and wondering if others are noticing this in their areas? Is this practice increasing in western countries? Are farmers under pressure so much that they are returning to old cheaper methods of fertilising fields?

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 Yes. The Ukraine conflagration jumped fertilizer prices significantly since they were the world's largest exporter of fertilizer, IIRC 
 

 Categorized in “information you didn’t ask for”, urine over mulch or wood chips, then aged will produce a whole lot of nitrogen. 

 Regenerative ag on an industrial scale is a thing, not a well developed thing, but, growing into a much bigger thing currently since it's really necessary to diversify your inputs and outputs to not only sustain, but continually improve the land, and the products of the land.  

 Most Australian farming is just destructive, we've turned vast areas into deserts in just two centuries or less.  

 It's happening in the US, too. It's completely unsustainable.  

 The worst of it is doing dumb stuff like building a city in the middle of the desert (Las Vegas) or draining aquafers for dumb reasons. Water is the foundation of all life, and it can be utilized in much better ways.  

 Locally we are building new estates on the best farmland, when more marginal land is only 10 more minutes drive. So we lose the best land and push agriculture into the least effective places, that would be better for houses. Bonkers.  

 So dumb. Geez.  

 Time for another Dust Bowl 

 I suppose so.  

 Yeah, I piss all over my garden, particularly compost heaps and garden beds 😂 

 Crazy that it might cause problems in farming in Australia. 

 "ineffective"? 

 Yes, I can't see the benefit, it would be better to run animals over it and get the manure. 

 assuming you don't want to feed vegans or something? 

 BURN THEIR FOOD! 😂 

 easy since it's all cellulose 

 it's more likely gonna get washed away anyway 

 There were big issues in the supply chain of potash fertilizer because of sanctions in 2022 

 OK, that's going to make a big difference.