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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale
  • Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:17:43 -0400

On Sep 21, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Owsley lucy wrote:

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.



Monocropping is also more "efficient" when there is more equipment available than human labor. When there is more human labor available than money to buy equipment, or if efficiency is defined as the greatest total production of nutrients per acre, it's the other way around.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




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