Essays: Chemicals in farming

A good website that gives you information about fertilisers and pesticides and their effects on the environment.

A good website that gives information about why plants need fertilisers and what effects they can on the environment.

This contains the usage of pesticides and fertilisers and shows the effects they have. There are also graphs that give you figures about the use of both pesticides and fertilisers

This website gives a lot of information about organic farming and it answers a lot of questions people would like to know like how do organic farmers fertilise crops and control pests, disease and weeds

http://homepages.tesco.net/~haughley/soilass.htm

This website tells you the history of how organic farming started out.

http://www.organic-gmfree.co.uk/organic.html

Organic farming: ‘a realistic choice’ (BBC News science/nature)

Brief description of a Swiss experiment comparing two conventional farming methods with normal organic production and another organic farming approach called biodynamic. Good facts and figures on organic yields and systems e.t.c.

Organic Agriculture

Some good figures on the ‘similar or higher yields’, ‘Efficient Production’ (soil quality), biodiversity, some good comparisons of organic farming with farming using pesticides.