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I didn't read the article but I wonder how much soil preparation was done before he went organic. You can't expect a soil leached of its nutrients by years of non-organic methods to produce a healthy crop. He would have to have planted cover crops beforehand to increase soil fertility and tilth.

For the other side, I recommend reading Michael Abelman's Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It

http://www.fairviewgardens.org/pub_books.html

As a former reporter, I hate to say this, but ... be very careful of what you read in the WSJ. When I worked for White Flower Farm, I was interviewed several times by WSJ writers, and it was very clear they had already decided what the story was, and were looking only for quotes that verified their thesis. I tried to tell them politely they were simply wrong. (It was usually dopey "trend" stories, built on a single factoid.) I saw a similar distinct slant to a story about a project in New London, CT, with which I was familiar.

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