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Organic is More Profitable - 2

Here is more solid scientific proof that organic is far better, after all - exactly 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.

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:

AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY: Organic Farming

The reluctance of much of the agricultural sector to adopt "organic" procedures -- the production of crops and livestock without recourse to inorganic fertilizers and synthetic pesticides -- stems from fear of increased costs over those of "conventional" farming. Letourneau and Goldstein have studied tomato production on 18 commercial farms (half of them managed organically) in the Central Valley of California; they find that the withdrawal of synthetic insecticides does not lead to increased crop losses as a result of pest damage. The arthropod communities on the organic farms contained a greater diversity of species and a greater abundance of natural enemies (predators and parasitoids) of pest species. Particular arthropod groups were affected more strongly by surrounding habitat and fallow practice than by insecticides. Overall, these results suggest that the use of pesticides in this system does not lead to a net economic benefit and that organic procedures can promote biodiversity and may sustain productivity. AMS J. Appl. Ecol. 38, 557 (2001)

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