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Old 09-06-2004, 03:18 PM
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Default Organic does not mean pesticide free...

Gordon Couger writes

Do the conventional plots rotate the same as organic plots, are they in
continues wheat or some other rotation.


Both are first wheats after break. The organic rotations have far more
breaks than the arable ones.

The largest loss in organic
agriculture is the years that the land is in low production rotations
that produce low value or no value crops.


Of course. Some of these are complete losses being, in effect, cover
crops. Red clover is a typical one, with herbiage all ploughed under, in
all-arable organic rotations.

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