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Originally Posted by isaidso
Yet Canada has more arable land than Japan, Germany, the UK, and France put together. And our grain belt expands northwards each passing decade. It's true that we're all sandwiched in the extreme south but the habitable land and that fit for agriculture still amounts to a massive swath of land.
ARABLE LAND (sq km)
Japan - 44,226
Germany - 121,737
United Kingdom - 61,144
France - 215,029
TOTAL - 442,136
CANADA - 469,281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country |
Arable is just a baseline, though. How intensely land can be farmed varies hugely. When people first came from the UK to the vaunted cornucopia of the Prairies, they imagined it would all be (or become) like England, with tiny acreages and little parish churches everywhere, with market towns every mile or two. The sort of agricultural land that we actually have was unimaginable to them, and required a lot of adjustment to new concepts of distance, including social distance.
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