The farm house easily converts to field of crop production like wheat. In agriculture number of factors like location of the farm house type of soil, weather condition etc. And also Land, water, labour and energy are also important factors. Agricultural production is increasingly susceptible to rainfall variability, even in irrigated environments. The various artificial intelligence (AI) dependent technologies assist in improving the soil fertility and production. Farmers use these factors or inputs to produce crops. For a given level of technology, the output produced by them is largely determined by the quantity of inputs used.

Thank you for this wonderful question. The answer to this question relates to scientific, social, and psychological factors. First, changing the beliefs of the breeder or farmer depends on him personally, and in my view, I see that a person is afraid to delve into the process of changing profit (psychological risks). Secondly, from the scientific aspect: This aspect depends on the economic situation of the farmer, whether he has the possibility of converting his farm or part of it to use it for hydroponics to increase the crops per unit area. And exploiting this farm for the possibility of raising fish. If farming in the soil could maintain a sufficient number of poultry and other livestock animals for us to convert the waste of those animals into fertilizers that improve the properties of the soil chemically, physically, and biologically... Plant production can also be improved, and revenues can increase by making the farm an organic farm. From a physics aspect, which I specialize in, we can increase production by adopting modern agricultural methods, such as increasing plant lines relative to irrigation lines (as in drip irrigation). This is called maximizing space utilization. Diversify crops and determine which are suitable for the farm's conditions and environment. To maximize outputs, apply irrigation methods that minimize inputs. Such as using drip and sprinkler irrigation to reduce the amount of water used in irrigation. These two methods also have higher productivity than if we used other irrigation methods. There are so many solutions that can be applied that there is no room to mention them...

Many thanks, Prem Baboo and Marwan Musa Nasr, for contributing to this discussion!

As a peasant, i would chose the gradual transformation process.

I do not beleive in wheat, nor soya, nor any monoculture.

I would shift for better than MGOs grains, quitting synthetic products and artificial production forcing methods.

Lets return to nature.

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1st : review (all or an area of the) landscape to increase resilience (wind blockers, ponds, streams, swales, access road, terrasses, slopes, soils, wildlife transits,...) [ST. BP. $€£¥. E. L.]

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2: soil prep : validate ecological compatibility (species vs soil).

Chose plant species to suit soil caracteristics

And Adjust substrate locally to fill plant special requierments

Use basalt, biochar, compost and vermicast, ashes, and stuicturants.

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3.reintroduce (nut & fruit trees & bushes. [L. T. Good weather] in regenerative permaculture. Select fast and slow to produce varieties. Plan for ST and medium term revenue.

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[1-3]Meanwhile reducing herbs plains in order to plan more trees, adjust quantity of animal raised, or reducing animal diversity for food disponibility. Quit one problematic animal sector or the least profitable meat sector (revenu drop expected)

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4. As fruits production raise from small & earlier species, revenue will migrate from meat to plant. Continue to address land sections, from 1 to 3 easiest way [T. L. $€£¥. BP. ]

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5. gradually, the cattle or chicken farm will morph into plant-food permaculture.

This increase :

- carbon seq.

- Nitrogen seq.

- Quantity of Food produced per area (Thus more people fed)

- needs for transportation, since locals will buy more different species

- needs for refrigeration, since pick&deliver

- plants resilience & health

- birds and insects diversity

- Happyness and human health

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And reduce :

- methane & GHG emissions

- transportation since more diversity means more local sales

- needs for refrigeration (pick & deliver)

- pickers salaries, inviting locals to pick them selves

- needs for big tractors

- money transit : momentarily less incomes from shifting to plant farming but much less expenses too

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ST : short term

BP : big perturbations

$€£¥ : money investments

L: Labour

T : Time

More if you are interested in my project, i could show you some PowerPoint

- methane & GHG emissions

ST : short term

BP : big perturbations

$€£¥ : money investments

L: Labour

T : Time

More if you are interested in my project, i could show you some PowerPoint.

Many thanks, Stéphane Lamanna for contributing to this discussion!

So, what would you do if your customers still demand you for meat products as their bodies won't be able to handle vegetarian or plant-based meals?

First, I think that a farmer has to be self sufficient in food production for his family. It means diversity in varieties, roots, leaves, fruits, garden vegetables.

This means also that AT different time of the year, he and his team will have to pick & deliver or transform. It is better this way since less picking staff is needed, but they are hired for more time (going from one culture to the other as they ripen).

Secondly, i don't believe that the question your asked is realistic.

So, what would you do if your customers still demand you for meat products as their bodies won't be able to handle vegetarian or plant-based meals?

Is it their bodies or more of their minds that cannot handle the transition ?

- I do farming. I adjust my ethics to be attractive to clients. I am not interested to do business with non ethical organizations. Nor to produce other than High Nutritional Organic Heirloom Vegetables. I prefer to remain small, selling directly to eaters, going with the more demanding customers. My prices are little more than in groceries but freshness, taste, nutrients, and medicinal properties are worth the price difference.

Here is a overview of some strategies that I would consider :

They are numbered to list, but no prioritization has been done.

0- Anthropology : When a mind is stubborn, all the environment has to be studied. What block it ? In response, I, The Farmer, have to be strategic. I for sure would tease their "Curiosity". Challenge their "capacity to taste new stuff". They are Humans, they need Time. WE are a little like SHEEPS that follow the one in front of us. Humans are gregarious. The farmer become a Shepard, showing the way to the clients.

1- OPENING MINDS : I would invite local to a meeting, showing them why, how, when the transition to plant base is necessary. I would offer conferences for schools, since parents are influenced by their youth.

2- INTEGRATE LOCALS : i would ask if some of the local would be interested to help, be part of that transition. (hired or volunteers). Locals will turn back spreading the words (preparing minds to a shift)

3- DEMONSTRATE ADVANTAGES : By a cooking book, i would promote increase in plant ingredients. Describing taste, nutritional advantages, medicinal properties and give ideas to use the new stuff.

4- PROBE LOCALS : What do they want ? prefer ? Your better cultivate something already sold than cultivate something nobody wants.

5- GRADUAL TRANSITION : Since my plan is GRADUAL transformation, this lets people adapt gradually TO change their habits. TO discover what they like or not. TO reinvent their meals.

6- DISCOVERY PACKAGE : as new varieties comes to harvest, I would offer samples to taste, give flyers of recipes, in an event, opened to locals and restaurants. This would bind the producer with the client (seen as a partner more than a money deliverer)

7- LOWER PICKING EXPENSES : In order to lower staff expenses, lower staff number, lower refrigeration, lower losses (from drop to ground) I would introduce SELF-PICKING into my schedule. People would come (in that schedule) to pick what is ripe. They would select what they want. They would mark their buys on their bills and pay monthly (my choice). This eliminate need for a refrigerator. ALSO, meeting with other local coming to pick, people would exchange ideas, recipes, tricks, and build a community (or reinforce it)

8- ENERGY PRODUCTION : Both animal and plant farms cans benefit from adding a biodigester. I would build or buy a biodigester to transform food wastes and/or manure INTO methane to heat or lighten a greenhouse or a house.

9- REGENERATIVE PHILOSOPHY : I would encourage composting AND vermicomposting, offering to LOCALS to transform their food waste (or extract methane from it). In return, Biodigester produce a very good quality fertilizer. Some solids acts as amendments (structure, granularity). Re-circle wastes into new soil, added fertility. Keeping the soil covered at all time. Encouraging microorganisms.

10- MEMBERSHIP : I could also develop MY community by selling membership passes. These passes sold before the growing season would give some advantages :

- they would finance pre-seasonal seeds and equipment buys.

- A GUIDED VISIT FOR 2 at the farm. There would be visits periods into the schedule.

- the privilege to come auto-picking according to schedule windows.

- members have certain amount of "already payed" foods included.

- offer more advantages (but not into money), like a party or two.

11- TOURISM : Having less income from animal sells, we could invite tourism to come discover the transition, meet the farmer, show them that we do high quality food. This bring little money, while demanding time to do the animation for the visits. This also contribute to ease the shift in minds.

I took 30 minutes to answer but there would be much more to think and write.

Thank you so much, Stephane for sharing your farming and product-selling strategies. Very much appreciated. It all looks interesting.

Regarding my question, I'd like to give you an example. We know Vitamin B12 plays a Vital Role in our body's Production of Red Blood Cells and Animal Products such as liver, beef, sardines, clams, and dairy products are the sources of it.

So, suppose all farmers worldwide transit their farms to the crop fields and remove animal production. In that case, the Malnutrition of Vitamin B12 can have significant health consequences on the population worldwide and thus, it May Jeopardize Human Lives. So, what would you do in that scenario when you see people dying because of a lack of Vitamin B12, making their bodies weak against fatal diseases?

Please take a look at the following link, discussing the vital role of vitamin B12 in our body, based on the scientific literature:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-b12-benefits

You might find this article useful

Article Can supplementing vitamin B12 improve mental health outcomes...

Many thanks, Tiago Horta Reis da Silva for contributing to this discussion and sharing this article! It is interesting to see how vital Vitamin B12 is for our body health.

So, here are a couple of questions that may arise:

Can supplements be good replacements for the natural sources of this vitamin from animal products for a long time? For example, do they have the same effects and side effects in our body?

Can enough vitamin B12 be produced to feed the 7 billion people worldwide if all animal-product farms are asked to plant-product farm conversions?

i could not change my work easily. because my experience, hobbies, business, skills and livelihood are depended on the former farm activities. may i will ask a compensation as opportunity cost of leaving the former work, i will studies the profitability of new farm activities first and the reason the leaved the former farm activity. if it obligatory may be i will change

I will adopt mixed farming instead

Many thanks, Welay Tesfay for contributing to this discussion! I agree with you about the compensation and believe the conversion should be a recommended option in the real situation, not an obligatory order or mandate.

Many thanks, Lukman Ganiyu for your contribution to this discussion! Yes, mixed farming could be a good idea as you and others in this discussion pointed out. I believe everything needs to be balanced and both types of farms are required for the sustainability of human civilization.

Mixed farming - but for cattle will do sustainable intensification- reduces space and ensures early maturity. As a way to limit GHG emissions

Many thanks, Happison Chikova for contributing to this discussion! I am wondering what gasses cattle produce to warm up the earth's atmosphere. I also brought up a question about "Climate Variability" via the following link if you would be interested in reading and contributing to it:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_think_Climate_is_really_Changed_or_it_is_Temporal_Variability_in_Climate_caused_by_Temporal_Variability_in_Solar_Activities

Hello, continuing the previous answer here About : What is wrong with manure in aerobic digestion (composting pile)?

Cattle poops, urine, and vegetable wastes can be introduced into a biodigester. They do anaerobic digestion.

If not, rotting into aerobic digestion, will release biogas. Case of most manure composts.

This biogas is mostly formed by methane 45-65%, CO², H²S, sometimes SILOXANES & COVs. N², and some other compounds can be part of the equation, all depends upon what is fed into the biodigester.

This CH⁴, or Methane is a GHG. It is 22@28 folds the GHG of the CO².

Results : Pollution, climate change.

This is one of the motivations that initiated your 'hypothetical farmer" to convert its farm from cattle to vegs.

Look into biomethanization.

Opportunity to add energy production to extract the 'sun' contribution from farm wastes to produce gas-heat, gas-light, and when purified, sold to the natural gas market.

BIOgas :

- Rises resilience & self-sustainability

- Lower GHG,

- Money Income possible

- promote Circular economy

Secondly, the ending product from a biodigester is :

- a liquid fertilizer, (water, vitamins, trace mineral, nitrogen,...)

- a solid digestate use to structure more than fertilize (made of mineral solids, mineralized phosphorus,...)

So, all nutriments are returned to soil, excepted the nutriments extracted from what you have eaten. More, Phosphorous saturated soils can be fertilized from the liquid extrants, without adding phosphorous. The opposite can be made, adding P to an P poor soil with less Nitrogen.

Circular economy.

Agriculture Wastes becomes intrants, feeding the beast.

The Extrants becomes fertilizer and amendments for agriculture.

Hope this answer your question.

Now, for my last intervention, B12 can be assimilated by human body from other sources than meat.

Yeasts, seaweeds, and supplementation could be investigated.

Personally, i was a big meat eater, then, illness forced me to change feeding habits. I switched to a full vegan diet, avoiding sugar, alcool, white vinegar and excitants (coffee, the, chocolate), Including vegan sources of B12 did not alter my red cell counts. I was on a very strict diet of raw food, lactofermentations, sproutings over a 3 year period.

As a farmer, i usually burn more calories than at a desk job. I did not lack energy.

My health went better and better.

Hope this second answer helps your works.

And nothing will block a customer from buying some meat from another source than the hypothetical peasant producing plant base food.

If I owned a farm that produced meat, transitioning to plant production would require significant restructuring, investment in new equipment, and staff retraining. However, this change could align with changing consumer preferences and environmental concerns.

Many thanks, Usman Olaide for your contribution to this discussion! I agree with you about those restructuring, expenses, and staff retraining concerns. And, there may be another issue sometimes. Most of the time, livestock farms are much smaller than crop fields, and thus converting those meat-production farms to plant-production farms substantially reduces the annual revenue.

Hello Stéphane Lamanna ! Many thanks for providing us with that information!

This could be an effective strategy to reduce risks and keep income during the process of transition. I may compare the risks and benefits before deciding whether to convert fully, partially, or look for alternative farming options entirely.

Many thanks, Kaye Ann CORRO Adlawan for your contribution to this discussion!