SLSC 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Soybean, Chestnut Blight, Organic Farming
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Fertilizer that was getting put onto elds was horse manure that was collected form in the cities being brought back into the country, this was a consequence in adopting the car. It made a shortage and people had to go towards liquid fertilizer. Ifoam: tried to come up with a single set of standard di erentiating between organic and non organic agriculture. Family of standard, every associated has their own rules of what meets organic agriculture. Rodale: started eld trials, and the longest eld trials to stand. Plant extracts, they are damaging to the environment and contain heavy metals. Naturally occurring compounds, you extract the juice and put it on your crop and it works as insecticide. It e ects a lot of organisms like sh. It makes a protein which causes insects to not be able to digest food and they die of starvation, bt protein that is in crops.
