Here's how much cropland could be freed up if Americans ate half as much meat
Here's how much cropland could be freed up if Americans ate half as much meat
https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/heres-how-much-cropland-could-be-freed-up-if-americans-ate-half-as-much-meat/
A national flexitarian diet would reduce the amount of U.S. farmland by roughly the size of South Dakota.
I'm picturing a field of potatoes, beans and hemp laid out in optimized patterns and never 100% harvested. Throw in patches of natives and flowers and some shading solar panels you'd be really cookin... If feasable to totally no till and if it worked, after season, bring in some cows to clear the dead beans and after a few days, chickens to feast upon the poo-munchin invertabrates. Do soil maintenance if necessary... Add fruit trees for the lullz. Harvesting would have to be really clever... I bet after a decade or so, upkeep costs woild optimize.
Oh hush; it's my naive fantasy and I can do what I want.