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In reply to the discussion: Turns out those old-fashioned ways of farming were actually pretty smart [View all]bhikkhu
(10,718 posts)29. I suspect that you don't actually care at all, but here's a few anyway:
An article detailing a study from 2009: http://energyfarms.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/farm-scale-study-results-from-2009-field-season/
A website explaining one contemporary method: http://www.growbiointensive.org/grow_main.html
Here's a run-down of the SCI organic system, which allows smallholders to outproduce industrial farms ( yield per acre, or course): http://www.growbiointensive.org/grow_main.html . If you actually have any interest in the subject, that article has numerous references to follow up on.
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Turns out those old-fashioned ways of farming were actually pretty smart [View all]
xchrom
Dec 2013
OP
No doubt they were right for their time, and worth exploring again, but that's only half the story.
Geoff R. Casavant
Dec 2013
#2
I read a study which disagreed - that Asian traditional methods had the highest yield
bhikkhu
Dec 2013
#6
Real farmers don't, but mechanized corporations do--Better Living Through Chemistry!
truebluegreen
Dec 2013
#14
You seriously can't follow a well reasoned argument without an outside reference?
kristopher
Dec 2013
#30
If the only factor was pesticide use and species extinction, then that might be a good argument
jeff47
Dec 2013
#8