A history of land use in its most essential form.
A science fiction story about farming and averting famine, which has always been an objective of agriculture…
Beginning with truth: In 1956 Marxism arrived in China, and the Great Famine followed the Great Leap Forward as agricultural jurisdictions underwent revolutionary change. 40,000,000 people died. And here is the SciFi… CVN71 is home to the F35 fighter jet and it controls arrays of X47B drones. The idea is that such a platform and radio telemetry and resonance scanning array could be used to monitor evapotranspiration and therefore make accurate predictions of crop failure in regions which could then be assisted humanitarianly by the appropriate routing of USA grains… World trade in Chinese manufactures is already “fed” by Durham Ramen noodles. Chinese rail gauge, this author postulates, synchronized with Western but not Russian gauge as of the 1990’s… and accordingly there is a historic time now beginning wherein such transport methods as container freight, including refrigerated container freight, is compatible with world rail systems except for Russia, India, and Ireland. Surf: world rail gauge map. Global foodstuffs and manufactures trade.
The early history of agronomy and an evolutionary timeline of dietetics must be compared to BMI and other health markers relative to the mechanization of agriculture, especially the production of fodder grains for meats and dairy production.
“Scythe versus Sickle” paradigmatic geopolitical dispute. Tull Seed Drill. Deere Moldboard. MacCormack IH Harvester. 3 point hitch then returns us to fascinating realms of standardized bushels, rail and road systems, etcetera.