{"id":215,"date":"2011-10-29T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T15:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/organic-farming-better-for-bottom-line.html"},"modified":"2011-10-29T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T15:26:50","slug":"organic-farming-better-for-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/organic-farming-better-for-bottom-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Organic farming better for bottom line"},"content":{"rendered":"And you don&#8217;t have to owe your soul to the bank or to Monsanto!\n<p>\nMargaret Reeves wrote for GroundTruth 12 October 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panna.org\/blog\/organic-farming-better-bottom-line\">\nOrganic farming better for bottom line<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panna.org\/blog\/organic-farming-better-bottom-line\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.panna.org\/sites\/default\/files\/user1\/oragnic-farmer.jpg\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.agronomy.org\/publications\/aj\/view\/103-5\/aj10-0371-pub.pdf\">\nAgronomy Journal<\/a>&#8230;\nreports on an 18-year study demonstrating that organic crop rotation\nis <em>consistently more profitable<\/em> than conventional corn and soybean\nproduction, even when organic price premiums are cut by half. That is\nvery good news for both organic producers and the agricultural economies\nin which they operate.\n<p>\nThe report is especially important in that it comes from one of the\nmajor U.S. professional trade journals for agricultural research &mdash;\nnot known as a bastion of progressive thinking on alternative agriculture.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And you don&#8217;t have to owe your soul to the bank or to Monsanto! Margaret Reeves wrote for GroundTruth 12 October 2011, Organic farming better for bottom line: Agronomy Journal&#8230; reports on an 18-year study demonstrating that organic crop rotation is consistently more profitable than conventional corn and soybean production, even when organic price premiums [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[2761,730,2774,173],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-bottom-line","tag-economy","tag-organic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-3t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}