purple2510
1/2/2004 7:21:00 PM
"Dutch" <no@email.com> wrote in message news:<vv9aikcf6553ce@news.supernews.com>...
> "Purple" <purple2510@hotmail.com> wrote
> > "Russ Thompson" <pmfb@mwt.net> wrote
>
> > > > Can you estimate how many you have observed?
> > >
> > > *** Any estimate I gave would be a wild guess and I am not going to play
> > > that game.
> >
> > OK. Fair enough.
> >
> > > What I have observed while hauling the grain cart and while on
> > > the ground hooking up wagons went from a dead animal here and there to
> all
> > > over the place. The kids and my husband have noticed it as well. The
> hawks
> > > certainly seem to like it.
> >
> > Sure. The raw number of deaths is too crude a measure to assess the moral
> > cost of food production. Your farm probably causes more deaths than
> > a conventional one because it suuports more wildlife. This is surely
> > a good thing. The question is whether the additional life, organic farms
> > support is sufficient to offset the extra land needed to grow our food.
> >
> > > > Incidentally how do your yields per acre compare with before?
> > >
> > > *** One forage crops we get 15-20% less tonage. On grain crops it is
> 25-30%
> > > less. For example our average corn yeild before organic was 110 bu/acre.
> We
> > > now average 74 bu/acre.
> >
> > An inforamtive answer. Thanks.
>
> Have you posted to this group before using a different alias?
I've posted to this group before using my current alias.