1. Family managed farming, organic and conventional, is in crisis in many areas because policy makers and the general public do not know what values would be lost if industrial agriculture swept the ...

The Purdue Extension Organic Agriculture program coordinates extension and collaborative research programs in organic agriculture in Indiana. County educators work with the organic agriculture ...

Wildlife in rivers is protected. Productivity is lower on organic farms. ADVANTAGES Chemical-free food grown to meet consumer demands. DISADVANTAGES More labour intensive – it takes the farmer ...

Organic farming, in general, is more profitable than conventional farming. This is the conclusion of a paper published by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2009. The author, Noémi Nemes, ...

An immediate goal is to develop and test the practical and economic impacts of alternative soil, and crop management strategies for pesticide-free farming systems, and the feasibility of organic crops ...

Barton announced this week that he helped secure $500,000 in state funding to support the nonprofit Rodale Institute’s ...

A nationwide, searchable directory of inputs that enables organic farmers to find the products they need. Organic agriculture is knowledge-intensive in nature, and has a strong rooting in science. The ...

Soon, other towns and villages in Andhra Pradesh started practicing natural farming. In the Krishna District of the state, Narala Rajashekhar Reddy became an organic farmer two years ago after ...

I do not understand the need for hyperbole and incorrect statements, when the actual numbers are newsworthy and ...

While going fully organic would produce fewer direct emissions than conventional farming, researchers say it would limit food production. As a result more imports would be needed, resulting in up ...

In Churchill, Manitoba—where polar bears outnumber the 900 human residents—there's more to discover than just wildlife.

Almost 400 pesticides are used in conventional farming, but only 26 have been approved for organic farming.So why are many non-organic farmers happy to use chemical pesticides? They all undergo a ...