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Sustainable Spuds



The recent and ongoing potato discussion brings several questions to
mind:

1.  Could the Irish potato farmers controlled the blight if they had rotated
their crops with barley or oats or some other Gramineae?

2. If organic agriculture grew out of a reaction to the increased use of
agricultural chemicals in production systems, why can the description of
"organic" be applied to any system that relies on non-synthetic inputs?

3. Wasn't the Irish potato famine really an example of unsustainable
organic agriculture?  

4. Wouldn't Bill Duesing make a great neighbor?  I think so.


Marc Safley
marc.safley@usda.gov




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