Section 2
Three years before the land qualifies
What the conversion period is for.
- Why the land waitsLand must be managed to the standard for three years before its crop may be sold as organic, which is a residue and soil-biology argument rather than a formality.
- Nitrogen without a bagLegume cover crops and green manures supply nitrogen through fixation, which is the core agronomic substitution the standard requires.
- Keeping the neighbour's spray outBuffer strips and hedges exist to keep drift off certified ground, so a certificate constrains a farm's boundary as much as its practice.
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