On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 02:47:37 -0500, "Gordon Couger"
wrote:


"Oz" wrote in message
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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.

Then for a true picture the total yield in some unit, dollar or pounds
sterling per acre in total yield of wheat, feed, fiber meat and what ever
should be totaled up and divided by the number of years in the study giving
true value of the output of an organic farming operation per unit area
compared to a conventional or modern farm. Showing how much far they are
really behind modern methods. With total production nearer 25% or less that
of a modern farm ran in an intensive operation.

Gordon


You seem to bed missing the point. We no more want intensive organic
farms, then we want intensive factory farms. Intensive farming simply
does not work, it's destroying the planet and that's why we have a
huge cry for "back to basics" farming.

As for organic not being pesticide free, so what. The whole idea is to
allow nature to do what it does best, looking after us.















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