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- From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:41:49 -0400
I have to say on this statement that Organic cannot not be done on a large scale or even over an acre is a bunch of Bull. I farm over an acre of mixed vegetables Organically (We do around 4 acres) and I know several farmers around here (SW Ohio) that do so on a fairly large scale, over 500 acres, and generally have good yields (comparable to conventional and usually a bit better than GMO yields). And there is Rex Spray in central Ohio who has been farming field corn on hundreds of acres Organically for decades and he usually has the highest corn yields in Knox county with averages over 200 bushels an acre. Organic can be and is done on larger scales and in mono cropped situations and it is done quite well. Of course, you get far more food from smaller allotments that are planted in mixed crops than you do with mono cropping but mono cropping is so much easier for the corporations to deal with. Lucy Goodman Boulder Belt Eco-Farm Eaton, OH
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
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- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, McCormick, Rebecca (Genworth), 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Andy Fellenz, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, sals3, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Thamnophis, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Owsley lucy, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Road's End Farm, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, William H Shoemaker, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Marty Kraft, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Nan Hildreth, 09/25/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Richard Stewart, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
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