[labcomputer]

Big agri corps can afford large tractors that till, plant and harvest more efficiently. They can afford to buy remote sensing imagery to optimize planting. In other words, there exist scale effects in agriculture.

You lose those effects if every hundred acres needs to produce all of needs of a human family. Self sufficient is less efficient.

You can bring back some of those effects with co-ops, but now it starts looking like a single large business with many owners again.

[modo_mario]

That's indeed what I was saying.

You don't get those things when being a lot more sustainable. You're not being more efficient with resources like time, labour, etc.

But I'm not pumping up gas for it, making the insect populations go into freefall as much, etc Am I being more efficient in my use of those?