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Re: State eliminates organic certification program
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:28 -0800
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> >Simple crop rotation to avoid pest build up [and the building of soil
> fertility];...as well as manuring
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Thanks, Chris.  Surprising that I missed these.  I was so focused on
California, that I completely forgot about my summer pastures in Nevada.
Large-scale commercial agriculture is practiced there, using the above two
practices on a regular basis.

Last season, when I had a putative pesticide kill, and went around talking
to the farmers, I was surprised at how many of them had forsworn pesticides
completely!  These were salt-of-the-Earth, conservative, multigeneraltional
farmers, who didn't consider themselves to be "organic" in any way.

Randy Oliver

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