eating it s all down to the harvest is often not all that often given the infestation we re seeing here it s not looking promising to get. the switch to organic farming is a time consuming process and calls for a lot of patience crops and soil need to adjust after years of conventional farming . my hope for his experiment with rate seed has cost him 25 percent of his usual yield next year he ll go back to spraying his crops with conventional farming crop losses aren t factored into the business model. in order to maximize profits farmers need to be an organized and unanimous group. it s german farmers day and despite the annual conference of the german farmers association. the event demonstrates how much of farming in germany works it s a large scale industry led by risk adverse interest groups. the
cognition. from his and his colleagues point of view the only type of farming that can meet the needs of the world population and benefit the environment is organic farming. but it is consumers who will decide if they want organic war non-organic for the time being 9 out of 10 consumers buy conventionally farmed produce mainly because it s more affordable. but why are fruits and vegetables grown with the help of pesticides and artificial fertilisers so cheap it s partly down to the supermarkets price wars but there s more to it than that. another decisive factor the real costs and who bears them economist adrian miller has been exploring this issue for some time to take milk 24 grass fed cows are kept in the cow shed at the swiss research center each of them produces 6000 liters of
delicious looking produce with great flavor from a dish that s organic feel good guy or has been tasked. with deciding if seacom should be nominated for a prestigious international award for policies promoting agro a college spend a week here as a guest from germany a country seen in c come as highly progressive in terms of organic farming. georg meyerhoff for runs a conventional farm near passed down in southern germany approximately 60 percent of his earnings come from crops used for bio gas he wants to farm sustainably and avoid using pesticides but he doesn t believe that a complete switch to organic is necessary. biters shimon of both types of farming produce healthy crops that will help you live to 100 that the auto that this is the analytics we use are very precise. these
milk a year high performing breen s in conventional dairy farming are expected to produce up to 50 percent more if they are to be profitable this increased production is bad for the environment and it s not usually the farmer who bears the cost. in the coast on the phone and if that s what gets played on so we re the ones who bear the cost compete for the. for example because we have to pay for purification of drinking water due to the nitrate and pesticides used in farming toward the city but we share those comes. if we import animal feed then it s the other countries who carry the cost of the animal feed production so we re shifting the problem to other countries and in terms of climate change it s the next generations will carry the cost of what we re doing today so it s an all round bad deal this is the least of the. british researchers have calculated that if all the costs were taken into account we should be paying at least twice as much for conventionally produced food
turned his back on old school farming after 20 years. it s going to rain again on the weekend and if you don t even let s get rid of those weeds in culture are in fact all i think and so ok august started. his apple orchard covers 50 hectares 2 years ago that month stopped using glyphosate and pesticides he uses mechanical methods to tackle weeds and relies on nature to regulate itself but weed control without the help of chemicals is a major challenge. we ve got an infestation of passes here that s a part of organic farming but for me it s a new problem. we don t have the option of regulating it we just have to hope that nature comes to our aid that s enough and that beneficial insects are able to fight the pests in the largest you should linger with some to come from. a drop in yield