> There is NOT enough naturally fixed nitrogen (and phosphorus) to sustain yields that are needed to feed people

You're mistaken.

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/in-syntropic-agriculture-f...

He refused to use artificial fertilizers and pesticides. He let most of the land grow naturally, and on 12 hectares (30 acres) he planted bananas and cocoa, cutting back the surrounding trees regularly. Today, he harvests an average 920 kgs (2,000 lb) of cocoa beans per hectare, more than three times the average across Brazil of 300 kg (660 lb) per hectare. And because he doesn’t spend money on fertilizers and pesticides, unlike the farmers around him, Götsch enjoys higher profits.

https://www.microfarmguide.com/syntropic-farming/

The yield from the system usually equates to and often surpasses that of the conventional counterpart. The other plants grown within the systems result in additional income for the farmer, covering the labor cost.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/organic-farming-y...

Organic agriculture delivers just 5 percent less yield in rain-watered legume crops, such as alfalfa or beans, and in perennial crops, such as fruit trees. But when it comes to major cereal crops, such as corn or wheat, and vegetables, such as broccoli, conventional methods delivered more than 25 percent more yield.

Organic farmers should use best management practices, supply more organic fertilizers or grow legumes or perennial crops.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-023-00884-x...

Natural farming improves crop yield in SE India when compared to conventional or organic systems by enhancing soil quality

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11069

with good management practices, particular crop types and growing conditions—organic systems can thus nearly match conventional yields

https://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/nature-an...

Yet his acres consistently produce harvests that equal or surpass those of his neighbors who use labor-intensive, chemical-dependent methods. Fukuoka’s system of farming is amazing not only for its yields, but also for the fact that he has not plowed his fields for more than 30 years! Nor does he use prepared fertilizer — not even compost — on his land, or weed his rows, or flood his rice paddies.

> I wonder, do people really think that all farmers are morons?

> You can "regenerate" this and "natural" that all you can, but it simply won't work

> Then you're a moron and/or ignorant of what is actually happening.

I'm not a farmer, and I just love farmers ;)

But I'm aware what's happening, and how destructive "modern" agriculture is.

Do you realize the extent to which we have depleted wildlife, insects, and fish populations, and how limited their numbers have become?

Do you realize the extent to which we have depleted our soils and how little of them remains?

Are you aware what pesticides and herbicides are doing to the wildlife and to our health?

Are you aware we're in the overshoot, e.g. consuming and polluting more than what earth can handle, and that with new countries developing the demands will only continue to grow?

Are you aware that agriculture, and animal agriculture specifically, is a leading driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss?

Are you aware that animal populations have seen 70% reductions just in the last 50 years, insects are 80% gone, seas will be almost empty in 2040's? That we're witnessing the sixth extinction, something that should take apx. 2.8 million years, but we'll manage that in less than 100 years?

Are you truly content with the current situation and genuinely believe that what we're doing aligns with the responsibilities of good stewards of the Earth?

Are you absolutely certain that, considering the world's population has reached 8 billion, we should continue prioritizing our eating habits over sustainability?

Are you aware that we're destroying rainforests to grow and import animal feed?

Are you aware that more of the habitable earth is dedicated to animal agriculture than to forests??

Are you aware that livestock make up 62% of the world’s mammal biomass; humans account for 34%; and wild mammals are just 4%?

Are you aware that poultry weighs more than twice that of wild birds?

https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

https://xkcd.com/1338/

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/ecological-cliff-edge/

Are you really not seeing the need to "regenerate" ?

Clearly, you believe that we have to keep doing what we're doing. As a result, you will likely continue to eliminate every living thing around your fields for the remaining few years, until biodiversity collapses, just to maintain your profits.

Hope you stay healthy and avoid developing Parkinson's, a fate that has befallen many of your colleagues due to the pesticides and herbicides you so readily spray across your fields. Be well.