News tagged with organic agriculture


An impossible coexistence: Transgenic and organic agriculture

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The study was carried out by researcher Rosa Binimelis of the UAB Institute of Environmental Science and Technology. Binimelis is working on the European project ALARM (Assessing Large Scale Risks for Biodiversity with Tested ...





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Can organic cropping systems be as profitable as conventional systems?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Which is a better strategy, specializing in one crop or diversified cropping? Is conventional cropping more profitable than organic farming? Is it less risky?


Costs, considerations of switching to natural or organic methods

Biology /

created Apr 22, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When Kansas State University graduate student Ben Wileman was a practicing veterinarian in Belle Fourche, S.D., natural and organic labels were a big focus for the beef producers he saw.


Global warming is changing organic matter in soil

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (33) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth.


Oxygen trick could see organic costs tumble

Chemistry /

created Jun 11, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A simple, cheap treatment using just oxygen could allow growers to store organic produce for longer and go a long way towards reducing the price of organic fruit and vegetables, reports Lisa Richards in Chemistry & Industry.


Compost can turn agricultural soils into a carbon sink, thus protecting against climate change

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created Feb 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Applying organic fertilizers, such as those resulting from composting, to agricultural land could increase the amount of carbon stored in these soils and contribute significantly to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, ...


Prairie soil organic matter shown to be resilient under intensive agriculture

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created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study has confirmed that although there was a large reduction of organic carbon and total nitrogen pools when prairies were first cultivated and drained, there has been no consistent pattern in these ...


Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity

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created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

There is growing interest in using crop residues as the feedstock of choice for the production of cellulosic-based ethanol because of the more favorable energy output relative to grain-based ethanol. This would also help ...


Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens

Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens

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created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Each weekday, food scraps are collected from the Maryland Food Distribution Authority in Jessup, Md., and from small local food service and marketing establishments. Materials that do not contain metal, glass, ...


ARS Explores Ways to Keep Carbon in the Soil

ARS Explores Ways to Keep Carbon in the Soil

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon ...


No evidence to support 'organic is best'

Chemistry /

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (81) | comments 33

New research in the latest issue of the Society of Chemical Industry's (SCI) Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows there is no evidence to support the argument that organic food is better than food grown with t ...



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