Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Mark Nagel <activism98201@verizon.net>]

I'm not looking to UP (or to "raise") the ante, but shouldn't it really be 
driven by moral obligation to feed people?  That is, shouldn't it be stated 
that we should strive to produce what would be the greatest value to others?

It's picking nits, but the pure "profit" angle will, at least in the 
short-run (which may have substantial consequences of the long-run), drive 
farmers to produce biofuels :-(


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


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From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
Date: 2007/03/10 Sat PM 11:23:06 CST
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Livingontheland] Yield vs output/ was nutrition


Reply to Ken's post. 
Looking at # 8. Manage crops for highest profit per acre;  not the highest
yield per acre.

We've been bamboozled by industrial agribusiness over the word "yield".
Total output is what counts, and total profit which is gross minus
expenses.