<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d36b4cb1-25b4-4116-99c4-16d57dbfeccd/143EF811-988A-4F0E-B192-BCC3183B0F01/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://earth911.com/blog/2009/09/14/cheat-sheet-organic/" href="http://earth911.com/blog/2009/09/14/cheat-sheet-organic/" style="font-size: 11px;">earth911.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earth911.com/blog/2009/09/14/cheat-sheet-organic/"><P>In some larger-scale organic operations, because herbicides cannot be sprayed on fields to remove weeds, operators need to run tractors with special machinery over crop beds to remove weeds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earth911.com/blog/2009/09/14/cheat-sheet-organic/"><P>This mechanical removal of weeds can sometimes require many passes over a field in a tractor, using high amounts of gasoline or diesel in the process.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earth911.com/blog/2009/09/14/cheat-sheet-organic/"><P>Also, there is a debate on whether organic agriculture can keep up with the world’s food demand. However, the <A class="extlink" href="http://www.fao.org/">United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization</A> suggest that it is possible, and will in fact be necessary, to further promote organic agriculture in order to help small-scale farmers in other nations maintain their livelihoods, reverse the land degradation that has resulted from conventional farming and halt other environmental issues, such as  dead zones in oceans and river deltas due to agricultural chemical contamination.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/143EF811-988A-4F0E-B192-BCC3183B0F01/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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