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Hear, hear - what have I been saying all along? And when you add a 72+ trace element fertilizer - the need for which is as yet generally unknown in academia - you will be astonished at the great disease restistance, insect resistance, and the massive productivity of your crops. |
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Use a fishmeal or seaweed fertilizer - once or twice a year - for the 72+ trace elements, and see if you can make an arrangement with a restaurant or two to pump their dishwater into a tank, and to pick it up and use it on your crops. Trickle irrigation to the root zone of your crops is best. And along with lots of irrigation water, you'll have the perfect organic fertilizer - and your production will skyrocket (between three and sevenfold).
In addition to higher income for organic crops, you won't need any other fertilizers, nor any pesticides, and your operation will not only be permanently sustainable, but become richer and more fertile season by season, and year by year.
And it will be environmentally perfect.
Even better: You can also advertise your crops as "72 trace element complete", and help people to get rid of a lot of 'incurable' diseases and cancers - see SUPREME HEALTH in these pages. |
Original Abstract:
Sustainability of Three Apple Production Systems
Escalating production costs, heavy reliance on non-renewable resources, reduced biodiversity, water contamination, chemical residues in food, soil degradation and health risks to farm workers handling pesticides all bring into question the sustainability of conventional farming systems. It has been claimed, however, that organic farming systems are less efficient, pose greater health risks and produce half the yields of conventional farming systems.
Nevertheless, organic farming became one of the fastest growing segments of US and European agriculture during the 1990s. Integrated farming, using a combination of organic and conventional techniques, has been successfully adopted on a wide scale in Europe. Here we report the sustainability of organic, conventional and integrated apple production systems in Washington State from 1994 to 1999.
All three systems gave similar apple yields. The organic and integrated systems had higher soil quality and potentially lower negative environmental impact than the conventional system. When compared with the conventional and integrated systems, the organic system produced sweeter and less tart apples, higher profitability and greater energy efficiency. Our data indicate that the organic system ranked first in environmental and economic sustainability, the integrated system second and the conventional system last.
JOHN P. REGANOLD, JERRY D. GLOVER, PRESTON K. ANDREWS & HERBERT R. HINMAN
NATURE 410, 926 - 930 (2001) 19 April 2001
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