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The Case Studies
The Case Studies
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The committee commissioned these 11 case studies to expand the growing but still limited scientific literature on the range of alternative farming systems currently operating in the United States.
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A committee member or staff consultant visited each of the case study farms. Where possible, a local expert a university researcher, cooperative extension specialist, or Soil Conservation Service professional accompanied the visitor to the case study farm to provide verification and interpretation of procedures used, resources, performance, and other aspects of the special management features being examined on the farm.
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In addition, the turnips are grazed, a practice that provides excellent feed for the animals as well as improving soil filth and fertility and reducing erosion. The Sabot HiZZ Farm near Richmond, Virginia, is a diversified operation of 3,530 acres producing beef cattle, forage, and cash grain.
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program that includes the occasional use of pesticides. The Ferraris have been innovative in their pest control strategies, experimenting with such new biological controls as the coaling moth granuTosis virus to control coming moth in apples, pheromones to control the oriental fruit moth, and predaceous mites to control phytophagous mites.
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The Colemans routinely administer inoculations but do not use growth hormones or subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics in their natural beef program. They receive a 25 percent premium price for 2,500 head of their own beef plus 12,500 head produced to their specifications by other ranches, all of which is nationally advertised and marketed as natural beef.
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Their remaining objectives include finding an acceptable way of providing nitrogen without using synthetic chemical fertilizers or increasingly scarce and expensive animal manures. In spite of a nearly 50 percent premium added to the price of their organic rice, the experimental rice acreage has not been profitable in most years.
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