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What percent of crops grown in the US are grown conventionally rather than organically?
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∙ 12y ago
Approximately 95% of all crops (including feed and forage crops as well as oilseed and pasture crops) are grown conventionally. If you look only at human food crops, the conventional percentage may be somewhat lower.
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What percentage of crops grown in the US are organically grown?
25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25%
What kinds of problems do genetically modified crops with transgenes pose for farmers who do not grow the altered crop?
One problem GMO crops pose for farmers who do not grow them is cross pollination of GMOs in non-GMO crops, especially those that are grown organically.
What questions should be asked in a survey on organic farming?
A survey of organic farming could include the following questions: How many years have you been an organic farmer? What crops do you grow? Are all your crops organic? How do you build up your soil? What do you use to control weeds? What do you use to control insects? Do you use heirloom varieties? If not, what varieties do you use? Do you get good yields? Where do you sell your crops? Do you have any close neighbors who grow conventionally? Do you have any neighbors who grow GMOs? If so, what steps do you take to prevent your crops of the same species from being contaminated? What advice would you give to someone who is just starting out as an organic farmer or gardener? Do your profits justify the extra work that growing organically requires?
Should pesticides and herbicides be used on organically grown crops?
Only those compounds which have been specifically approved for organic use.(By the way, herbicides are pesticides.)
What is unchecked spread of GMOs?
Spread of GMOs is the unwanted cross pollination of GMO crops with non-GMO and organically grown crops. Unchecked spread means that it is being allowed to happen without measures to avoid it being taken.
What effect does pollen from genetically modified plants have on organically grown plants when they are cross pollinated?
When organic crops are pollinated with GMO crops, the GMO gene can become a part of the organic crop, so the organic seed for the following year contains the GMO. Technically, since organic crops are not supposed to have GMOs in them, this contaminates the organic crops.
What percent of the world's crops are gown from hybrid seeds?
99 percent of US corn is grown from hybrid seed, but not sure about world crops.
When crops grown to sell rather than be eaten by the growers are called?
cash crops
Where do 90 percent of the crops originate from?
England!!
What is the difference between organically grown cotton and conventionally grown cotton and the impact that they have on the environment?
Not much difference between the two crops. Cotton grows into a bush that gets flowers that turn into bolls that has the raw cotton. To get the cotton off the plant the bush has to die. To kill the plant a agent is sprayed on the plant or salt water. Once it is dead the raw cotton can be picked with a cotton picker. It is sent to a cotton gin, cleaned, and put in large bales.
What percent of floridas land grow crops?
65%
How are conventionally grown foods different from organically grown food?
The addition of modern chemicals. They have chemicals to keep bugs away, to keep the food from smelling, frm keeping the food going bad, to keep the food polished, and only conventionally grown foods have these chemicals. These chemicals are bad for you but you won't see the difference until like4 years of each. This Is Solo6 Signing out! Peace! [2nd answer]
