what similarities and differences do organic agriculture and natural farming have?
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Question by Oragon: what similarities and differences do organic agriculture and natural farming have?
Is natural farming a component of organic agriculture?
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3 Responses to what similarities and differences do organic agriculture and natural farming have?
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No, reverse that. Organic farming is a component of natural farming. Natural farming is, IMO, the opposite of commercial farming. Organic farming has to adhere to strict rules of “certified organic” whereby natural (non synthetic) methods are used.
Clear as mud? Sorry I didn’t explain it very well. You’ll have to do your homework on this one! 🙂 LOL. (rats, huh?)
SayWhat?
August 5, 2011 at 2:41 am
The “natural” or “organic” are basically the same, with Organic being MORE strict as to not using chemicals made in a lab. The one BIG difference between these two is that a “natural” farm can use products when nothing else works. I have NEVER seen an “organic” farm recover from a very bad infestation of almost anything. One good example was a poultry farm that wanted to keep its “organic” certification got a bad case of “bird bugs” which are a close relative to the bed bug. It got to the point that the farm was butchering chicken before they died due to blood loss (yes, it was THAT bad) and they were loosing a lot of money…..just before a fire started and burned the place down…. just in time. They survived on the insurance money.
A “natural farm” could have corrected the problem with some “all natural” products.
Tony, a typical white person
August 5, 2011 at 2:45 am
I’m not sure what you mean by natural farming. There is commercial farming, commercial organic farming, and conventional farming on small farms. There a differences all over the place. Be more specific please.
LJ4TPM
August 5, 2011 at 3:27 am