Organic Farming Better For Wildlife? Not Necessarily

While proponents of organic farming insist it can meet population projections and is better for wildlife, scientists at the Universities of Leeds and York say instead a balanced approach is superior.  At least for butterflies. Their study found that organic farms have more butterflies than conventional farms but that a conventional farm plus an area specifically managed for wildlife could support more butterflies and produce the same amount of food from the same area of land.  Drawback: the wildlife area would have to be similar in quality to a nature reserve rather than similar to an uncultivated field margin, which boosts costs even more. read more

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