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  • December 2007 Issue
  • Understanding sustainability

    Sustainable practices must make economic and environmental sense.

    Warren Morgan, looking for a way to grow his own fertilizer in the orchard, is experimenting with a side-discharge mower to blow green manure down the tree row. Sustainability is a topic of keen interest to Warren Morgan. Although there is little branding of sustainable products in the market today, especially when compared to organic foods, he believes that consumers are concerned about what farmers are doing in regards to the environment and global warming—issues that will continue to become more important in the future. The public does not easily understand the term “sustainable,” but Morgan hopes a session on […]

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