Biofuels v food

[Grant]

The current global drive is to save the planet and go organic. Organic farming produces lower yield than conventional farming methods. Whilst other food stuffs are being diverted to the production of biofuels due to the farmers being able to make more money.

What clearly suffers here is the ability to feed the human race - so which is more important and why?

[ATO2]

Originally Posted by Grant

The current global drive is to save the planet and go organic. Organic farming produces lower yield than conventional farming methods. Whilst other food stuffs are being diverted to the production of biofuels due to the farmers being able to make more money.

What clearly suffers here is the ability to feed the human race - so which is more important and why?

Well, you gotta eat, before you can drive!
End of story.

[ATO2]

This story about organic farming trial in Taranaki:
Economics will usher in the widespread uptake of organic farming methods, a soil scientist for Massey University's organic/conventional dairy systems trial in Palmerston North, Dave Horne, says.
Dr Horne addressed a small group of about 20 farmers at Terence and Jill Whelan's farm in Patea last week to present an assortment of findings from the ongoing trial.
He was speaking as part of a pastoral workshop about opportunities for organic production and certification put on by the Organic Dairy and Pastoral Group
The Massey trial Dr Horne discussed is the only comparative grassland-based open grazing dairy study in the world.
Organic benefits show in farmer's bottom line - Farming - Taranaki Daily News

[TokWW]

Our company - or more correctly, our owner, has deforested some square kilometers of forest in the last 12 months to create huge dairy farms, and now finds he is dealing with a dairy effluent problem and fertiliser wash off problem into water ways and Environment Waikato is guiding "him" into dealing with it to comply.

Our mill has a waste detrious material of dead bugs and sludge from our effluent dredging in ponds which also contains old fibre and this mixed with the urea/nitrogen waste from new dairy farms can produce good material for a large worm farm which is then later spread as an organic material fertiliser. The combination of two waste streams results in a natural fertiliser!! And higher farm productivity at lower costs.