Diversified organic farms as productive as conventional monoliths

Can diverse low-input cropping systems be as productive as high-input conventional monocultures? According to research carried out across farming operations of various size, scale and type for 13 years in Wisconsin, small-scale organic farms can produce just as much food per unit of land as conventional agriculture.
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If you can not post the entire article on your page as text, would you please write a synopsis of it? The link you provided led to a page that required we pay to read the article.

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