• Sheldan@lemmy.world
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    There are fertilizers without oil production, it’s just not scaleable in comparison and fell out of favor due to other stuff. But organic products without these kinds of fertilizers exist.

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      Then you get into herbicides and pesticides, both of which are majority oil. Even organic products use propane to control weeds.

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        I don’t think they use these two particular things, but different countries have different Standards. If you want to go that route, they also use tractors or other machinery using oil in some capacity.

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          Which two particular things? Organic farms use propane because they have to burn the weeds, they can’t do it any other way.