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  • From: Mark Nagel <activism98201@verizon.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Yield vs output/ was nutrition
  • Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:59:46 -0500 (CDT)

I'm pretty sure that I understood what Paul meant and that I agree with the
underlying aims. I am just cautioning that we've got to be careful about
using abusable terms. Again, if we talk of maximizing outputs in the way of
money earned, then one might as well get on the biofuels wagon (which is
highly subsidized): if we could kill all the subsidizes and flatten the
playing field then I wouldn't have a problem using the definition given by
Paul (and the term "profit").

One need only see how the term/word "organic" has been abused/hijacked by big
corporations and how it's starting to derail (confuse) the real intent to
understand the perils.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


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From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>

I don't think the "profit" spoken of here is the same as corporate
agribusiness. What Paul is referring to is the ratio of output to input.
You can certainly raise "yield" by the use of chemical fertilizers, but the
long-term cost is too high. By keeping costs very low, a lower yield can
make very good sense for the long term. E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore




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