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  • From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale
  • Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:46:12 -0500

And equipment requires fuel, which points to our dependency on fossil fuels and mined ancient solar energy.

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End Farm
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:18 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale

 

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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