NATS 1560 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4A: Horizontal Integration, Vertical Integration, Walkerton, Ontario
16 Mar 2017
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Monoculture: growing the same crop in the same place year after year: sometimes called conventional agriculture. Farms are now producing more food than ever. Canada has been tracking the nutritional value of potatoes grown since the 1950"s. Studies done by the united states of america show that chickens have been increasing in fat and sodium, but decreasing in vitamin a and potassium which are both important. For dairy: cottage cheese has been losing calcium, iron and phosphorus but also gaining in fat and sodium. Factory farming is also a major issue. Disadvantages: removes productive crop land from use, creates noxious smells over which neighbors have no control over whatsoever, ensures disease among the animals because they are kept so close to eachother. Factory farming creates so much waste that it is too much for the farm to use as manure on its own. In the past, farmers would use animal waste as manure.
