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Tillage EROEI Method Comparison

Its printed title: Thermodynamic Evaluation of Primary Tillage: An EROEI Analysis of Manual Broadforking Versus Draft Animal Plowing in Berlin, Germany

The energy cost of turning one acre of Brandenburg sand, with a broadfork or with a pair of draught horses or oxen behind a mouldboard plough. It draws on Pimentel's hours of hand and ox work for maize and on the LEAFS vegetable trial, then counts what people and animals burn, reckoning that a pair of heavy horses turns the acre in about six hours. It measures in acres and dollars, and its degree-day base and chemical symbols were lost in extraction.

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  • F26 unresolved Yield 20 t/ha potatoes, 3 t/ha rye on sand (model); 60 kg potatoes and 80 kg grain per person per year; 30 m² and 300 m² per person
  • F56 confirmed Flail ~20 kg/h; winnowing air 3–4.5 m/s; EROEI budget (130 h/acre, 490 kcal/h, 16,204 MJ/acre, 58:1; horses 6 h, oxen 10 h; feed 80/60 MJ/d; 0.28/0.37; 15 acres; "starve within …

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Soil and compost The field and the rotation The cow Berlin and Brandenburg

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