Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/351/en

The principle of the farm organism was upheld by the representatives of agricultural farm management science in Germany right into the 1950s. This happened with the inclusion of all the technological achievements of that time, above all "mineral fertilization" — and here with particular emphasis on the targeted application of synthetically produced nitrogen salts. But then the red thread of Western-Christian farming finally snapped. From the beginning of the 1960s the concept of the farm organism faded away, and in its place stepped the concept of system. This is open on all sides and is conceived as a system of interconnections, without reference to an "essential nature" — that is, to a wholeness grounded in itself. With that, all the sluice-gates to the fragmentation of agriculture into agrarian industrialism were thrown open. A decisive trigger was