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MU grad student simulates 100 years of farming to measure agriculture’s impact on land and water quality

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Estimating the long-term impact of agriculture on land is tricky when you don’t have much information about what a field was like before it was farmed. Some fields in Missouri started producing crops more than a century ago — long…

Organic farming just as productive as conventional

Scientists from the University of Minnesota demonstrated yields of corn and soybeans were only minimally reduced when organic production practices were utilized as compared with conventional production practices. After factoring in production costs, net returns between the two production strategies were equivalent.