Cambridge study finds ‘high-yield’ farming to be more eco-friendly than organic
Story Date: 9/24/2018

 

Source: AGDAILY, 9/17/18


New research out of the University of Cambridge affirms what many production farmers and ag communicators have said about the environmental sustainability benefits of modern high-yield farming techniques, at least as compared with organic and other “regenerative” methods. There is mounting evidence that the best way to meet rising food demand while conserving biodiversity is to wring as much food as sustainably possible from the land we do farm, so that more natural habitats can be “spared the plough,” the Cambridge researchers said in the journal Nature Sustainability. 

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