Organic farms

Jacques Sorci, the executive chef for the Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park, buys small, sweet onions from an organic farm in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and cooks and pickles them a la gtecque in chicken stock, white wine vinegar, bay leaves and fresh thyme, to serve as a garnish for gibsons at Rise, the hotel s bar.That s so what. 

There must be a waiting period between application and harvesting, and few of these products can be used in organic farming. 

Serenade has low human and environmental toxicity outside the target organisms, is broad spectrum and suitable for organic farming, there is no build up in the soil or groundwater, and it can be applied right up to harvesting. 

Cederberg, C. and Mattsson, B. (2000). Life cycle assessment of milk production—A comparison of conventional and organic farming. /. Cleaner Prod. 8,49-60. 

H. Ferris, R. C. Venette, and S. S. Lau, Dynamics of nematode communities in tomatoes grown in conventional and organic farming. sy.stems, and their impact on soil fertility. Appl. Soil Ecol. 3 161 (1996). 

One purpose of this book is to help the organic farmer define how much milk or meat or cereal he can produce from clay or chalk land, and how this will vary according to temperature, rainfall and altitude. Farmers like to do better than their neighbours, or at least as well, producing more bales of hay per ha for example. But, particularly with organic farming, this is likely to be the case only if the... 

Consumers are also likely to be influenced in their choice of organic products by the knowledge that an increase in organic farming will improve the welfare of farm animals, and that pollution of the rivers and the countryside generally will diminish. 

The monitoring of organic farms in Europe and North America is relatively well-established. However, as Herrmann and Heid (2000) pointed out, several European member states are voicing doubts about the reliability of control mechanisms among groups of small farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia. 

Despite these successes, the impression is often given, with certain European countries such as Austria in mind, that Britain s record in the expansion of organic farming is a poor one. When the situation in Britain is compared with the USA, however, a different picture emerges, for Americans are seen, on the whole, as even less interested in where and how their food is produced than are Europeans (Clancy, 1997). 

Dabbert, S. (2000) Organic farming and the Common Agricultural Policy A European Perspective. Proceedings of the 13th International IFOAM Scientific Conference, Basel, Switzerland, pp 611-14. 

Murphy, M.C. (1992) Organic Farming as a Business in Great Britain. Agricultural Economics Unit, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge. 

Organic Farming (1999) Conversion enquiries reach new heights. Organic... 

Table 2.5 Dry matter production on organic farms by site class. ...

Silage- and hay-making are very important components of success on organic farms, not just because good quality silage and hay are critical... 

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