Industrial farming

This is not the place, nor am I the most knowledgeable guide, for an extensive discussion of Soviet high modernism. What I aim to do, instead, is to emphasize the cultural and aesthetic elements in Soviet high modernism. This will in turn pave the way for an examination of an illuminating point of direct contact between Soviet and American high modernism the belief in huge, mechanized, industrial farms. 

Many large industrial farms managed along scientific lines were established in the 1920s and 1930s. Some of them were the stepchil-... 

In other words, what Michael Pollan (2006) calls industrial organic agriculture enacts nearly (but not quite) as dramatic an abandonment of the human values and purposes of farming as does the dominant form of industrial agriculture, which also uses pesticides and petro-chemical fertilizers. Both forms of industrial farming ultimately fail to preserve or protect the land, and both fail to nourish the customer optimally and both fail for the same reason the pursuit of greater profits. 

That means that, without doubt, our own costs will continue to rise—our research and manufacturing costs, travel and selling expenses, and so on. But of equal importance, agricultural costs are going to move up steadily too. In all probability the impact of inflation will be greater on the farm than on industry. Farm labor cost are already proving to be burdensome labor costs are now a matter of consequence to all farmers. They are going to become even more so within the next few years. 

Lobao, L. (1999), Industrialized Farming and its Relationship to Community Well-being (a report for the State of South Dakota, Office of the Attorney-General), p. 27. 

By genetically engineering crops that are naturally resistant to insects, bioengineers have helped reduce the need to use harmful pesticides in industrial farming. 

The most common sources are waste and fertilizers. Large amounts of ammonia can be released into the air near farms and industries. Farms have high levels of ammonia due to animal waste storage and the use of ammonia-containing fertilizers. 

Waste products of industrial, farming, or domestic origin heavy metal ions, nutrients such as phosphates and nitrates, dissolved organic material, etc. 

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