"rick etter" > wrote in message news
> reduced yields from organic farming

'2. Lower yields are experienced during the transition to organic production

Most researchers agree that yields tend to drop for three to five
years during the conversion from industrial to organic approaches (Dabbert
and Madden, 1986; US Congress, 1983; Hanson et al, 1990; Lampkin,
1989; Smolik and Dobbs, 1991). This is because it takes time for the soil
to develop the positive attributes associated with organic agriculture. It
also takes time for operators to learn organic crop management techniques.
Some of the lower organic crop yield estimates cited in Exhibit III-1
may have been from industrial farms in transition to organic production.
http://tinyurl.com/uvdi

'During the four-year period, corn yield in the organic system averaged
91.8% of conventional corn yield and soybean yield in the organic system
averaged 99.6% of conventional soybean yield. By year three, there was
no significant difference between organic and conventional yields; and
both organic corn and soybeans exceeded conventional yields in the
fourth year (the first year after certification). '
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/organicproductionworks.php

> http://www.highyieldconservation.org...c_farming.html
> http://www.highyieldconservation.org...esticides.html
> http://www.highyieldconservation.org/articles/scarcity_abundance.html"

Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute and Avery, again.

'Monsanto and the Campaign to Undermine Organics

Monsanto also partially funds the extreme anti-organic Center for
Global Food Issues, a project of the right-wing Hudson Institute.
It is run by Dennis Avery
[1] (http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=15&page=A)
The Hudson Institute is funded by many firms whose products are
excluded from organic agricultu eg, AgrEvo, Dow AgroSciences,
Monsanto, Novartis Crop Protection, Zeneca, Du Pont, DowElanco,
ConAgra, and Cargill.
[2] (http://www.gmwatch.org/p2temp2.asp?aid=48&page=1&op=1)
and his son Alex Avery.
.....'
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.pht...rmine_Organics