Savage's methodology couldn't have been simpler: He lined up and charted organic and
conventional yield data for the same crop and state in which they were harvested.
Not exact matches
Our analysis of available
data shows that, overall, organic
yields are typically lower than
conventional yields.
I suspect that other
conventional global temperature
data sets, when controlled for ENSO in a similar way, will
yield a similarly significant recent temperature trend.
We used publicly available
data from the United States Department of Agriculture to estimate
yield differences between organic and
conventional production methods for the 2014 production year.