permaculture

["dheritage@juno.com" <dheritage@juno.com>]

Doug,

You wrote:

<There were a couple of studies done in the late 60s or early 70s comparing
established organic farms (which were well past their adaptation period
when yields tend to decrease temporarily) raising field crops, to
commercial conventional farms.

It was found that gross yields were slightly higher on the conventional
farms and profits were slightly higher on the organic farms, partly due to
the organic farms selling some of their crops at premium prices (5 or 10%
I believe) and partly due to lower input costs of the organic farms....>

This is all good, interesting information. Do you know of any published, well 
reasearched scientific studies that support this? Especially studies 
performed by unbiased, respected organizations. It seems to me there has been 
enough time and interest for studies to have been conducted that answer these 
questions or at least give us a rational scientific understanding of the 
differences between conventional vs. organic agriculture.

Dave Heritage


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