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Report: Eliza Wood
Organic farming is coming under the spotlight because of some startling new information.It appears environmentally-conscious organic farmers might be contributing to environmental problems.Fresh research shows some farmers are being too heavy-handed with their compost, and this can lead to nutrients leaching into waterways, and more carbon being released into the atmosphere.Agricultural scientist Graeme Stevenson has been working on behalf of the Organic Coalition of Tasmania to bring together information he's gathered from organic farms over the past couple of decades.He says while the findings are shocking, he's hoping they'll lead to more professionalism in the industry."We pride ourselves as an industry in looking after the environment. This is a bit of an embarrassment. Well great, let's face it, we've found it, let's warn our growers and even build in in our certification a system of watching this a bit more. We've always been aware of over-application of compost as a general rule, but this is getting much more specific," he said.
In this report: Graeme Stevenson, agricultural scientist.
Organic farming is coming under the spotlight because of some startling new information.It appears environmentally-conscious organic farmers might be contributing to environmental problems.Fresh research shows some farmers are being too heavy-handed with their compost, and this can lead to nutrients leaching into waterways, and more carbon being released into the atmosphere.Agricultural scientist Graeme Stevenson has been working on behalf of the Organic Coalition of Tasmania to bring together information he's gathered from organic farms over the past couple of decades.He says while the findings are shocking, he's hoping they'll lead to more professionalism in the industry."We pride ourselves as an industry in looking after the environment. This is a bit of an embarrassment. Well great, let's face it, we've found it, let's warn our growers and even build in in our certification a system of watching this a bit more. We've always been aware of over-application of compost as a general rule, but this is getting much more specific," he said.
In this report: Graeme Stevenson, agricultural scientist.
1 comment:
Yes, this is the real issue here that farmers need to be taught how much compost to actually use. That's all, end of story. You watch, very soon a report will come out from the pro-GM sector to say how bad organic growing is for the environment. The whole idea is to educate the organic farmers. Not to spread the ... (compost) saying that organic is bad for the environment but I bet it will happen.
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