Crop rotation, recycling through compost, rotational grazing, mulches, crop selection and management, and exclusion of many pesticides and fertilizers used conventionally are the primary practices employed.
Agricultural research over the past 70 years has been primarily discipline oriented. Emphasis was placed on increasing production of a single crop such as corn or alfalfa, controlling a specific pest such as fire blight of apples or face flies of cattle, or determining the optimum nutrition of yard-fed animals. Organic production methods demand an emphasis on the whole farming system. It is not enough to produce an optimum crop of wheat or control squash bugs. Practices are not the simple sum of effects, as a practice on one crop may have a detrimental or beneficial effect on a succeeding or adjacent crop. Thus, research on organic methods cannot succeed unless the various disciplines work together as a team.
I made a mistake by saying 2/3 reduction, it meant reduced to 2/3. At the current stage, the 2/3 I quoted was from yield report from farm converted to Organic farming. It wasn't actual research document, in fact, there is very little done comprehensively due to the difficulty of the scope.
Also the problem we are talking about is not just the American market, where usable land is able to support Organic farming as long as American stop being wasteful. Otherwise it is doable but at a cost of forestry and land conservation.
In countries like China and India, you would agree it is not possible. Shipping food across the ocean is not environmentally friendly either and is directly contradictory to the recent " local grown" trend.
Agricultural research over the past 70 years has been primarily discipline oriented. Emphasis was placed on increasing production of a single crop such as corn or alfalfa, controlling a specific pest such as fire blight of apples or face flies of cattle, or determining the optimum nutrition of yard-fed animals. Organic production methods demand an emphasis on the whole farming system. It is not enough to produce an optimum crop of wheat or control squash bugs. Practices are not the simple sum of effects, as a practice on one crop may have a detrimental or beneficial effect on a succeeding or adjacent crop. Thus, research on organic methods cannot succeed unless the various disciplines work together as a team.
I made a mistake by saying 2/3 reduction, it meant reduced to 2/3. At the current stage, the 2/3 I quoted was from yield report from farm converted to Organic farming. It wasn't actual research document, in fact, there is very little done comprehensively due to the difficulty of the scope.
Also the problem we are talking about is not just the American market, where usable land is able to support Organic farming as long as American stop being wasteful. Otherwise it is doable but at a cost of forestry and land conservation.
In countries like China and India, you would agree it is not possible. Shipping food across the ocean is not environmentally friendly either and is directly contradictory to the recent " local grown" trend.
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