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Organic farm advantages in biodiversity and profits depend on location

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2020-01-28

For organic farms, size matters: not so much the size of the farm itself, but the size of the neighboring fields.A large-scale analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Jan. 27 found that organic agriculture sites had 34% more biodiversity and 50% more profits than conventional agriculture sites, even though the organic sites had 18% lower crop yields.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-01-farm-advantages-biodiversity-profits.html