Not exact matches
But increasingly farmers also sell biomass — the residue left over after
crops like corn and
wheat are harvested — to companies developing fuel from
organic material.
A WA oat and
wheat grower has become the first farmer to lose his
organic certification after his
crop was contaminated by a neighbour's genetically modified canola
crop.
Several states specifically saw a jump in land devoted to
organic cereal
crops, including soybeans in Iowa, corn in Minnesota, and
wheat in Colorado and Texas, reports High Plains Public Radio.
The farm grows nearly 20 varieties of
organic crops, including red
wheat, oats, millet, sunflower seeds and hemp seeds, many of which are used in One Degree breads, flour and cereals.
The study authors looked at
wheat — a
crop that the Nature paper identified as one that badly lags in yield for
organic producers.
This disease can have a great impact on
wheat production in Europe, including
organic crop production in Denmark.
The best - performing
organic crop was winter
wheat, which yielded just 10 % less than the conventional harvest.
-- Research shows that
wheat crops benefit from a preceding legume pulse
crop through the addition of soil
organic matter leading to conservation of soil moisture and the addition of nitrogen (Miller et al 2002; Miller et al 2003; Cutforth et al 2007).
my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain
crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain
crops are... inluding many
wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of
crop planted on it and get an
organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this
crop rotation onto fields which had grain
crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....
They are comparing two
crop rotations — pasture - winter
wheat - soybean - pasture and pasture - winter rye / hairy vetch - corn - pasture — and grazing dairy steers on the cover
crops as a method of integrating livestock and
organic cropping systems.
The opposite trend was observed for barley (Hordeum vulgare),
wheat (Triticum aestevum), and hay
crops, however, suggesting the geographical yield potential has an inconsistent effect on the
organic yield gap.
Soil analysis in 1990 suggested that nitrogen fertilizer application since 1967 had increased the
organic carbon content in the surface soil layer by about 3 t / ha in a continuous
wheat cropping system.
However, in fallow -
wheat cropping systems (where response to nitrogen is much lower), the contribution of fertilizers to
organic matter may be minimal, and the use of fertilizers in these unsound practices may result in a net increase in CO2 emissions (Janzen, 1992).