Sentences with phrase «where organic yields»

Not exact matches

«We identify the situations where organic does well and we also identify the situations where it does not do so well, for example under irrigated conditions where the conventional yields can be just so high that organic agriculture can't match these yields.»

But the study went a step further, comparing crop yields on conventional farms to those on organic farms where cover crops were planted and crops were rotated to build soil health.

This is the next standard beyond organic, where you're planting with the cycles of the moon and you're enriching the soil in a way that isn't required in organic farming in order to increase yields.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

In those cases, where the yields are lower on organic farms, comparisons made per kg of product are less fa - vourable for organic systems (Chirinda et al., 2010b) unless N use efficiency is higher on organic farms (cf. 4 below).

Developing countries — where farmers may not have access to expensive fertilizers — could almost triple their yield by using organic methods without putting extra farmland into production.

We took the farm tour and viewed large plots of land where the longest - ever side - by - side experiments have been conducted, comparing organic methods with non-organic, measuring yields, effects on soil, moisture, humus, microbiological activity, etc. (Initially, organic farming yields drop off, but within a few years, organic yields are equivalent of chemical farming yields, but in drought years, organic agriculture provides higher yields.