Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/217/en

The fertility-bearer of the soil, transforming themselves. With proper husbandry, in the sense of the organism principle, the material and force-household of the farm regenerates itself largely from within. Against industry's consumption of energy and raw materials stands the building up, the self-generated manure, and the new formation of humus. The pure primary production of agriculture, when all the measures serving soil-building are taken into account — manuring, crop rotation, soil cultivation — carries a positive energy balance. This fact is today reversed into its opposite by the heavy deployment of capital in the form of nitrogen fertilizers, biocides, imported feedstuffs, and energy. The erosion-related soil loss, even on only gently sloping land in industrially operated agriculture — above all in maize cultivation — must also be named here. Considered in terms of the overall economy and looking to the future, however, agriculture has the task of providing the compensation for industry's negative energy balance.