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Low-input farming in practice: Putting a system together and making it work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

Frederick Kirschenmann
Frederick Kirschenmann
Affiliation:
Organic farmer, Kirschenmann Family Farms, R.R. 1, Windsor, ND 58493.
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Abstract

This paper analyzes some of the potential problems that can be anticipated in putting a sustainable system together on an operating farm, and proposes a few of the principle practices and management strategies required for making such systems work.

Keywords

sustainablelow-inputenvironmentwhole systemsconventional agriculturecrop rotationsod regeneration
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American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 4 , Issue 3-4 , December 1989 , pp. 106 - 110
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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