Organic Farming Act of 1982: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5618, June 10, 1982 |
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Page 81 - Organic farming Is a production system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetically compounded fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, and livestock feed additives. To the maximum extent feasible, organic farming systems rely upon crop rotations, crop residues, animal manures, legumes, green manures, off-farm organic wastes, mechanical cultivation, mineral-bearing rocks, and aspects of biological pest control to maintain soil productivity and tilth, to supply plant nutrients, and...
Page 70 - ... systems engineering to help to fully employ the Nation's manpower resources to solve national problems. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That this Act may be cited as the "Scientific Manpower 4 Utilization Act of 1967".
Page 19 - I would like to ask you whether or not you have any direct knowledge of any members of the clergy within the Commonwealth who are active members of the Communist Party.
Page 76 - ... education, (C) provides an educational program for which a bachelor's degree or any other higher degree is awarded, (D) is a public or other nonprofit institution, and (E) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association ; (5) the term "cooperative extension services...
Page 23 - We want to be made a partner, because we are going to be the people who are going to be the builders of the information highway.
Page 13 - Yes, Mr. Chairman. The point I was trying to make was that if we do combine the weapons and the energy research, an action I have doubts about, we certainly want to be able to break out those figures as clearly as possible so that the public knows how much is really going for energy research and how much really should be thought of as defense expenditures. Mr. ASH.
Page 1 - The increasingly complex and capital-intensive nature of modern farming has prompted many producers to consider alternative farming methods.
Page 2 - We in USD A are receiving increasing numbers of requests for information and advice on organic farming practices.