A farmer has been growing only corn in his fields for several years. Each year the corn stalks were cut off near the ground and processed to be used as food for cattle. The farmer observed that with each passing year, corn production in his fields decreased. Explain why removing the dead corn stalks reduced corn production in these fields.

Bad farming practice

Explanation: when you don't practice bush following or even crop rotation ( planting shallow rooted crops like maize and deep rooted crops like yam at seasonal intervals and no application of either organic or inorganic fertilizers in the farmland, the crop yields will reduced.

The farmer's contineous action of removing dead corn stalk to feed his livestock reduces the farm yields, his action deprives the farm land from natural nutrient replenishment i.e getting nutrients from decomposed stalks (dead plants and matters).

If he had leave the stalks behind, it would have decomposed and replenish the land with nutrients for the next cultivation season.

facts: the 14th amendment

the 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws.

the 14th amendment was intended to protect the rights of former slaves after the american civil war.

the 14th amendment was approved by congress in june of 1866 and ratified by the states on july 9, 1868.

the 14th amendment establishes that all persons born in the united states are citizens and are guaranteed all the rights of citizenship.

the 14th amendment establishes that the law protects all citizens equally.

in this case the passage of the 14th amendment   that was violated was the last part in which it states that there is equal protection of the law.