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Rivers, MB | mac4440 is right on with his response.
To add to his response, it is often said or assumed that organic farming is more "sustainable" than conventional farming.
I would argue that it is no more sustainable than high input farming. For every pound of food that leaves a field, it is removing a certain % of its weight in nutrients. Unless we haul the manure/waste from the people/animals that ate that food and their body once they die and spread it back on that field, we have removed nutrients that need to be replaced if we want soil fertility levels to remain the same. If we don't, its not sustainable. Just like conventional farming isn't sustainable without replacing removed nutrients with conventional fertilizers/manure | |
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