The time span of veggie-mite losing their vitamin-mite is roughly the industrialisation of farming. Ie when soil quality got used up, ferts were added and varieties were bred to grow bigger, better and faster more robustly enabling marginal growing conditions to be pressed into service. Kind of like old growth wood vs fresh sprouted 50 yr old trees, well not exactly but illustrating some influencing conditions on resultant products. Cereal crops are good examples. Greenhouse crops are fairly developed too. Lots of livestock gets the Hansel and Gretel treatment.
Just rambling. My grandpa used to have the richest blackest soil in the wheatfields that they cleared the underbrush from. No wonder. For a while. In the 50's and 60's degradation hit about 70's.
Just rambling. My grandpa used to have the richest blackest soil in the wheatfields that they cleared the underbrush from. No wonder. For a while. In the 50's and 60's degradation hit about 70's.
