Bushwick, my source of information comes from the fact I live in Indiana, one of the largest agricultural states for poultry and corn feed.
I will bet you a cool $500 that if given several seeds of fruits and vegetables that are meant for human consumption that you cannot grow them on the soil here without major reconstruction of natural minerals in the soil. Most farm plots used for cattle are so nitrogen depleted the only thing you can crow is feed corn and straw grass and that has to do with the soil composition.
So yeah man, $500 says you can't grow anything worthwhile out of the soil because of the clay like texture and the lack of several key nutrients (which is why it's used to grow grasses as bulk feed) so it'd be way off logic to state that utilizing the farm land here to grow orchards of fruit, or large fields of consumable vegetables would be more efficient than just growing bulk feed and placing cattle on it.
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