Re: scaling regen ag
This is tough, but in some ways, easier than it looks. Small farmers desperately want to get out from under the thumb of seed companies, fertilizer companies, pesticide companies, herbicide companies and banks.They swing a million dollars or more of debt a year, do a few hundred or a thousand acres, and at the end in a good year, make less than a convenient store attendant, and the life is much more dangerous and strenuous. In a bad year, mebbe lose the farm.
If we ate less meat and made less biofuel from fresh oil or corn the amount of land under cultivation could drop a great deal.
As for scaling biofuel, the way i do it requires a whole lot of moving parts, not for everybody. Briefly, we grow the grain, crush, refine, bleach, sell to food service, recollect, clean, convert to fuel. So need tractors, combines, crushers, trucks, pumps, tanks, process heat, dangerous chemicals, spill control, employees, customer service, insurance ... list goes on, is much more complicated than stopping the chain at harvest and just selling the grain. It took us years to set up the thing, still learning.
sidd
