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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

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.


Yes, but if they do that then the results are truly, truly, dreadful.

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.


Probably, to be fair, between 30 and 50%.

The big problem is that they really need 50%+ livestock and a very high
cereal price. Unfortunately that proportion would produce an unsaleable
glut of meat, that would destroy the economics.

Its not for nothing that brits ate large amounts of beef pre war.
It was cheap .....

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