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John Ehrlich

Oct 1, 2026

41:52
That's wild.
41:54
Yeah.
41:56
And so there was two to three week period set up in June 1924, I believe, at a large estate, 18,000 acres.
42:09
You know, this is post-feudalism Europe.
42:14
pre-industrialization of agriculture, and farmers were seeing, well, the introduction of chemicals and pesticides were just starting, and farmers were noticing already declines in the quality of their seed, because this is a farming that is still very connected to hundreds and hundreds of years of peasant agriculture and wisdom and um the and self-sufficient farming so they had to farmers had to save their seed every year they couldn't buy it from a company and um after the world war you know they were using nitrogen fertilizer and getting huge crop yields from introduction of nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, NPK, common fertilizer.
43:14
At the same time though, their second, third generation of seed was declining noticeably and this was worrisome to farmers because this is their livelihood you know the families states farms had carried over seed for generations and anyhow they convinced him to give um eight lectures At this state, Count Coserlink was the owner.
43:48
So 18,000 acres, you can imagine.

49 MINS LATER

93:12
How does it differ from those two?

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