Hey folks, welcome back. This is Elliot with the Four Proz Almanac. You can find us on Spotify,

iTunes, and wherever you get your podcast. And you can find us on Patreon if you'd like to help us

cover the cost of hosting the podcast. We don't offer any knowledge content related benefits

to our Patreon's in terms of limited access or anything like that right now.

Knowledge is for everyone.

And if we get more money than we need, we'll be donating it to good causes and we'll keep you in the loop.

We've also started a new mini series focused on peripheral stuff for our Patreon folks that will be tied around some subject areas

correlated to core content of this podcast. So we'll be talking about things from Cottage Corps

and Joel Salatin to radioactive pigs and lost indigenous crops and much, much more.

If that sounds interesting to you, for $2, you'll get some episodes like that, and we'll be

able to support this podcast for you guys. Here's a quick taste of it. One of the things I

know, I kept seeing come up was that the Iroquois farmers in the 17th and 18th century

produced up to five times more grain per acre than the wheat farmers in Europe.

So there's two things that they kind of based this on or why this was happening.

The first is the absence of plows in the Western Hemisphere, which allowed for a higher yield potential than wheat because obviously it's better for the soil.

The second is that corn has a higher yield

potential than wheat because it's a C4 synthetic photosynthetic grass. So if you remember from

the soils episode and the pasture episode, I think it was the pasture episode. We talked about

the differences between C3 and C4 grasses, C3 or cooler season grasses, C4 are warmer season grasses.

Hopefully you enjoyed that, and if so, head on over to the Patreon, and for $2, you can get

access to all of it.

We'll be likely adding to it once a week, so if you enjoy it, it breaks down to 50 cents

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