Another disadvantage of organic farming is that the diminished yields are wasteful of water and farmland.
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When it comes to herbicides, there is a more substantive difference between chemical and organic farming.
On top of down-to-earth you can add back-to-the-earth King spent many years doing organic farming in Idaho.
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Sekem, an Egyptian food producer, set itself the task of reclaiming desert land through organic farming.
Not content with being a videogame billionaire, Ding has begun to explore organic farming.
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The vexed question of whether organic farming offers significant benefits over conventional methods has been raging on for years.
But with organic farming representing 3% of U.S. crop production, there is certainly room for GM crops to help.
Now Ronald, 49, and Adamchak, 55, have become proselytizers for the marriage of genetically modified foods and organic farming.
News of the result hasn't yet reached everyone in the organic farming crowd, but why disabuse them?
Finally, many who are seduced by the romance of organic farming ignore the human toll it exacts.
Thus, given that land sparing protects biodiversity the best, GM is better for biodiversity than organic farming.
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In addition, farmland wildlife benefits far more from organic farming, as numerous peer-reviewed studies have now confirmed.
Organic farming, for example, accounts for only 50, 000 hectares out of the 16m hectares farmed, around 0.3%.
Wednesday, for example, a House Agriculture subcommittee took up the topic of organic farming in the Bush package.
"There is less energy use from organic farming, and the conventional systems produce 40% more greenhouse gases, " Kintzer said.
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Its recommendations included redirecting subsidies to protect the countryside, and increasing organic farming.
More organic farming would help "restore biodiversity within agricultural landscapes", Dr Fuller added.
You also made much of the thoroughly discredited claim that organic farming requires more land to be brought into cultivation.
Another antiglobalist is thoughtful Rod Dreher, the conservative religious writer, who opines for local organic farming in his book, Crunchy Cons.
Compounding the unwisdom of current regulation of field trials and commercialization of genetically engineered plants, USDA prohibits them from organic farming.
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However, the UK Government's Rural Recovery Co-ordinator, Lord Haskins, has questioned the ability of organic farming to satisfy the food market.
And with organic food costing appreciably more than ordinary products, one US cancer specialist said organic farming was a "dangerous delusion".
The new farm bill also offers help through loans and grants one programme would prioritise loans for beginners who practise organic farming.
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Organic farming and its products are inimical to good health in general and obesity in particular, and also to the natural environment.
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Later, there were vintage cars and motorcycles, a state-of-the-art home recording studio, horses, and, the ultimate sign of class ascent, organic farming.
This is firstly something of a death knell for organic farming: we know that that is more land hungry than conventional farming.
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"In many other European countries, I see that there is a lot of ambition on how organic farming should develop, " he explained.
Long-term trials in the United States show organic yields matching those from non-organic systems, with organic farming outperforming non-organic in drought years.
Nannie's wayward lifestyle and outspoken views on such newfangled matters as organic farming have had Garnett's nose out of joint for decades.
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Among other musings, Mr. Poole implies that organic farming is a con.
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