Greetings,
There has been a lot of interesting discussion recently regarding the right mix of crops,
plants, skills, labor, inputs, etc. of very small organic operations. I also wrote a
publication that was released last July at Friend of the Earth. The report is entitled -
Fair Agricultural Chemical Taxes: FACT and can be found on foe's wesite - www.foe.org/fact.
I cover a lot of territory in that report, including a section discussing the studies
comparing the org and conventional cropping systems. I referenced the studies I looked at
and that will help point you in the right direction. Good Luck! Valerie
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> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:16:00 -0500
> From: "Greg & Lei Gunthorp" <hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com>
> Subject: Economics of Organic farming
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> Best wishes,
> Greg Gunthorp
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