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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Organic fertilizers and amendments feed the soil, benefiting the plant and creating a healthy root system.
Organic farming is still mainly based on labor-intensive practices such as weeding by hand and using green manures and crop covers rather than synthetic fertilizers to build up soil.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Organic farming and agricultural production which minimize the use of pesticides and fertilizers while conserving soil and water are safer and more sustainable.
Organic standards disallow the use of pesticides and restricted fertilizers for three years before crop certification can take place.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Organic Formulations is a grower of organic herbs and is a manufacturer of Garden Organic fertilizers for home garden use and other value added products.
Only organic fertilizers such as composted vegetable matter are used in the estate's vineyards.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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Organic fertilizers and specially treated synthetic fertilizers are slow release so they won't burn and the nitrogen won't wash away in the rain before plants can use it.
Organic fertilizers are traditionally used with soil, but there are completely organic nutrients especially mixed for hydroponic gardens as well.
Organic seeds were collected from plants that were grown in organically certified soil with no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Organic fertilizers not only feed and stimulate the microscopic flora and fauna in the soil but also the larger organisms like earthworms.
Organic production prohibits the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides as well as genetic manipulation of plants.
Other organic fertilizers were available, but there was little reliable information on how quickly they release nitrogen and what amounts were readily available to plants.
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