Discuss Organic VS. Chemical Farming.?

Question

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Answer 1

organic farming makes use of natural resources. Garbage  from the kitchen can be recycled via the compost heap.Chicken manure or cave earth can be utilized to produce a luscious, giant, bumper crop harvest.Chickens brought up the organic way can roam freely and mature naturally. With chemical farming, chickens are in demand so they have to be fed chemical food that will make them grow quickly so the can be consumed by a hungry eager market..Since chemicals have often dangerous side effects, many diseases can trace their origin to chemicalsSome food are labelled 'for export only' and the producers know why.

Answer 2

organic only uses natural products for fertilizer, and pest control ex. manure and compost for fertilizer.

and planting marigolds, and keeping genies for pest control, also weeding mechanically (witch is more time consuming) instead of spraying herbicides.

Answer 3

Organic farming is a type of farming that uses substances that are naturally found in the ecosystem to produce crops for the world.  The hope is that this will eventually feed the world by loosing harmful fertilizers, pesticides, and chemicals and help the enviroment.  However, there is one small flaw in thinking that the niche market of organic farming can feed the world.

When the United States and the world was settled farmers started with organic farming to feed themselves and there famililes.  Almost every family farmed and provided their own food, which is not the case today.  Right now, in 2008 2% of the population in the United States farms to produce a surplus for all 300 million people to eat.  

To do this, we have had to turn to advances in technology that include genetically modified seeds, pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers made from non-organic substances.  To show the growth in production, in 1887 my great-grandfather wrote in his diary that "he smiled all the way to town" with a 15 bushel per acre spring wheat crop, grow exclusively with organic practices.  Last year, I helped our harvest crew take off a field average of 80 bushels per acre of spring wheat!  Why the increase?  We have used all the technologies provided to help our country become the #1 agricultural producer in the world.  

Is organic farming good for farming in general?  I would say with full confidence that it is.  Organic farmers are forced to find ways to integrate their crops in the environment to produce yields.  There practices help non-organic growers make their practices more friendly to the environment, and provide food to the world with less impact on the ecosystem. Let's stay with the times though, and realize that saying the statement "All farming should be organic." is the same as saying "2 billion people in the world should starve."

Answer 4

Chemical farming

-harmful pesticides in the air

-feeds more people because bugs dont eat the whole crop

Organic

- no harmful pesticides

- bugs consume large parts of crop

Answer 5

Dirk M has answered this question exactly correct!  I would only add that the American farmer actually feeds more than the 300 million people as our grain exports are shipped around world, with China becoming a major importer of much of our foods, iron ore, diesel fuel and any other material item they can get their hands on.

Answer 6

So-called Organic Farming is an "advance to the rear".  Plants convert chemicals in the soil to chemicals which (sometimes) can be consumed by animals.  Those that produce useful chemicals are termed crops.  Those that do not are termed weeds.  Those that produce toxic chemicals are termed noxious weeds.

All crops deplete soil of essential nutrients because the seed or fodder they produce is harvested and hauled away.  These chemicals must be replaced or the soil "dies".  Somewhere in antiquity people started noticing that plants fared better around animal droppings, and organic farming was born.  For thousands of years humanity "made do" with organic farming.  Recently, farmers with an interest in chemistry and chemists with an interest in farming learned that land was still being exhausted because certain chemicals were still not being replaced, even with the best use of manure.  This was the birth of chemical farming.  

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Answer 7

There is more than just pestisides and bugs that are the differences. Organic is becoming more and more popular. Organic means that nothing harmful to humans and animals were done to the crops and there are other ways to keep bugs of these plants.

Chemical means that there were chemicals used to produce these plants and make more of them. It maybe true that there is more, but who would want to eat something that may have destroyed the drinking water just because there is more quantity.