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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

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In some conditions, it’s preferred because using a tractor to treat a field means that whatever organisms are infecting one section can travel on the tractor to another field. An air tractor, as it can be called, races a finger’s width above tassels, with veils of pesticide blooming behind. But the crop duster did.

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Organic Farming for Ecosystem Biodiversity & Diversity – Larchgrove Farm, Barrhead County

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In 2006, they began to look for farmland around Edmonton, but the exorbitant cost of land — in some areas, upward of a million dollars — was insurmountable on teacher’s salaries. Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. We’re growing peas and oats to bring nitrogen back into the soil.

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