{"id":2299,"date":"2020-07-15T02:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T02:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2020-07-15T02:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T02:23:32","slug":"farming-fertilizer-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"Farming fertilizer fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/crop-land.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/crop-land.jpg 474w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/crop-land-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While doing research on agriculture, I read an article in National Geographic on farming and fertilizer the other night.  And a major problem in America these days, and around the world for that matter, is artificial fertilizer with nitrogen that&#8217;s contaminating ground water, suffocating wildlife in lakes and rivers, and is even now creating big, aquatic &#8220;dead zones&#8221; in bodies of water like the Gulf of Mexico.  (Yet another front in which we&#8217;re gradually destroying the environment.)  As president, I would push for banning these artificial fertilizers and ramp up, exponentially, organic growing &#8212; across the board.  Organic farmers Ron and Maria Rosmann, in Harlan, Iowa, spread no nitrogen on their fields and instead add nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in nodules on the roots of legume crops like soybeans.  &#8220;You organic guys can&#8217;t feed the world,&#8221; Ron says he hears.  But he always replies:  &#8220;That&#8217;s not true.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing research on agriculture, I read an article in National Geographic on farming and fertilizer the other night. And a major problem in America these days, and around the world for that matter, is artificial fertilizer with nitrogen that&#8217;s <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2299\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}