The Positive and Negative Feedback Mechanism of Fertility

If we think of the soil microbes, the soil and the plants as one intact functioning organism, then that organism has physiological positive and negative feedback. And so as you're saying, if we buy and apply a lot of fertility, the plant is saying, I've got plenty of fertility here. So it stops producing and spewing out those redecidates. Then the microbes say, well, wait a minute, you're not feeding me. That whole bartering system just absolutely shuts down. However, on the flip side, if those plants are relying on the microbes and the soil to feed them, then we get a positive feedback mechanism. It's back to that thing that you said about

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