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Organic Farmers

Farmers Market: Numerous Benefits for all!

Farmers’ markets have become popular in recent years. These markets allow customers to buy high-quality superior and unprocessed foodstuffs, produced locally. In addition, the local farmers market is the best way to encourage local economy as it opens many doors for domestic as well as international trading of various products. Buying products from local farmers market can give you the right opportunity to save money on quality organic foods. So, participating in the organic farmers markets is a wonderful prospect for the producer, the consumer, and the growth of business in general.

The depletion of environment is a major concern for everyone. People are working on numerous measures to minimize the loss. Nowadays, many countries have strictly implemented laws against usage of plastic bags, electricity, and recycling of waste. However, shopping from farmers market is not encouraged to an extent. Shopping from a local farmers market can really help in supporting measures as buying products from original producers will save money to be invested on packaging. Usually, you need to carry your own shopping bag at farmers markets as most of fruits and vegetables are available loose. In addition, you can save a great deal of fuel as these markets are organized in your nearby locality.

Another advantage of shopping from famers market is getting the real products. You can ask as many as questions from the producers and get the most reliable information. In this market, you can directly interact with producers and gather relevant information. You can save a lot of money through shopping from local market and it’s cheaper and less complicated.

Talking about the economic advantage of farmers market, it is important to mention that the local markets will benefit from the additional business that they may get when a market has been organized. Such markets bridge the gap between local and state commercial activities.

Are organic farmers the only group that looks at carbon as a resource rather than a waste product?

While conventional farming typically depletes soil organic matter, organic farming builds it through the use of composted animal manures and cover crops.

I find this article some what misleading and protray conventional farmers, as the bad guys when there not. When the article says
“Launched in 1981, the FST is a 12-acre, side-by-side experiment comparing three agricultural management systems: one conventional, one legume-based organic, and one manure-based organic. In 23 years of continuous recordkeeping, the FST’s two organic systems have shown an increase in soil carbon of 15-28%, while the conventional system has shown no statistically significant increase. For the organic systems that translates into more than 1000 lbs of captured C (or about 3670 lbs of CO2) per acre-foot per year—and that’s not even counting the reductions in CO2 emissions represented by the organic systems’ lower energetic requirements”

Seeing as they do not say what kind of conventional system they use, I am going to assume they use the plowing of the ground in the fall and then cultivating it at least twice in the springtype of conventional. Yes this does cause carbon to be released into the atmosphere, but this can also create an advantage by greatly reducing the number of weeds in the fields, which include biennials and annuals, and well then reduce the need to apply pesticides to kill the weeds.

Organic farming still uses tillage practises to plant the crops into the ground. So carbon is still released into the atmosphere.

There is another form of conventional farming, and that is no-till farming. This type of farming requires no tillage whats so ever, therefore reducing the number of times a tractor needs to go over a field, and helping to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by the soil, and greatly reducing the loss of soil erosion. How ever this can cause problems for farmers as well. No-till can work very well in a sandy loam soil, for there is less compaction issues, but using no-till on clay-loam soil, would greatly reduce yield becuase of compaction issues. There is also weed issues because the weeds are not up rooted, and so there are more weed issues to deal with, which can cause more pesticides to be used.

Another point that should be raised is that the article says using animal manure in organic farming:

“While conventional farming typically depletes soil OM, organic farming builds it through the use of composted animal manures and cover crops.”

This statement gives the impression that conventional farming use no animal manure, or cover crops, which are then incorporated into the ground. This is simply not true. All livestock producers use animal manure, and spread it onto the crop fields to use as a fertilizer. This also reduces the amount of synthetic fertilizer needed to apply to the fields. Many farmers also plant cover crops or properly rotate there crops help the soil and to reduce fertilizer costs. An example would be the crop rotation of wheat, soybeans, and corn. When the wheat is harvested, the stalk can aid as a soil cover to help prevent erosion, or can be cultivated into the ground to be used as organic matter. Soybeans have bacteria that looks like warts on the roots of the plant. This bacteria grow on there roots and gather nitrogen from the ground, which the soybean plant uses. When the soybean plant is harvested the nitrogen fixing bacteria stay in the ground, and so when corn is planted, the corn can use this nitrogen from the now dead bacteria. This again reduces the need for fertilizer. Cover crops such as red clover are also planted, so they grow after the wheat has been harvested and are the plowed into the ground in the fall to be used as “green manure” when corn is planted.

I am not against organic farming, and I believe that both conventional and organic can take the best from both sides and work together. But pitting the two different kinds of practises against eachother well accomplish nothing and well just simply mislead the public.

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