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Except they aren't at all. Fields are host to all sorts of life. Besides the plants that grow there, insects, reptiles, small mammals and the birds that feed on all of them are all found in fields.
Not if the ag industry has anything to say about it, though…
Not every field is a sprayed power crop, you know. You folks who only see the most extreme division of black and white in everything are mentally ill and the screen time is making you worse.
It’s not black and white though; saying fields are biodiverse is an erroneous simplification.
Fields can be biodiverse, but pushing for increased production inherently drives that down. Big ag will make the field deadly to anything other than the target crop to make conditions most favorable to that crop.
We grow subsistence levels of rice each year and choose methods that promote biodiversity. Our paddies and surrounding areas are host to all sorts of life; fish, frogs, snails, crabs, all that attract their own predictors. But even something that seems like table stakes such as using a combine to harvest instead of harvesting by hand is destructive to the ecosystem of the paddy.
…but then imagine if all the rice in the world was harvested by hand instead of by machine. Would it even be productive enough to supply the world? It’s unimaginably more time consuming.
To someone who lives in the country, surrounded by farms of various types, you sound like you've never even been outside.
To someone who lives on a farm, so do you.
No - Fields are biodiversity deserts, and farmers want it like this. They look pretty and look like nature, but could as well be sand
You sure think you know a lot behind your keyboard. You should really go outside more often, because you are absolutely incorrect.
Sounds like you think you know even more though?
https://wikifarmer.com/library/en/article/biodiversity-vs-monoculture-why-the-way-we-farm-matters-more-than-ever
I live in the country, surrounded by farms and timber property. There is life fucking everywhere. I'll bet you live in a concrete hell and have never been outside of the city.
Lol, look at this guy. Even the 'forested' area around him is a monoculture that looks nothing like real woods. Mate, many of us here on lemmy live or have lived in areas like you describe, or in or near areas that are actual nature. Hell, I'm sure there are plenty like me, who have actually worked in those fields. Unless you're on a rare farm co-op that really cares about biodiversity and promoting 'natural' ways of the ecosystem you're living in, you're basically experiencing the equivalent of this but for a crop field.
My forested area contains all the biodiversity the southeastern united states has to offer. I get a tax break for keeping it that way. You seem to be confused however that every piece of land everywhere is being used for something and that's just flatly incorrect. Maybe it is where you're at, but not here. When I say surrounded I mean within some miles. I'm an hour from town, there's lots between here and there.
I live right next to two fields and in a village with 30 houses, surrounded by fields.
You just prove the point