January 1984
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Today's organic farmers use the best seed varieties and soil conservation practices. Large, modern machinery enables timely, effective cultivation. Knowledge of weed and insect life cycles and of nutrient cycles enables organic farmers to design optimum crop rotations. Biological pest controls and ecosystem management techniques are among the most sophisticated practices that can be applied to any farm. Compares organic farming with conservation tillage, then looks at both of these alternative systems in relation to conventional farming.-from Author