Large scale agriculturalists and primary producers have recently become interested in measuring their carbon profiles. This may be accounted for in terms of sound economic management, and the type of foresight which anticipates the introduction of government policy and other compliance imperatives. Within this analytical environment, there is renewed demand for comparative studies which measure the approximate carbon profiles of organic and conventional agricultural technologies. In a field-based trial organised through the University of Nottingham, researchers concluded that organic weed control required almost double the amount of energy per hectare of wheat production compared with conventional control methods. In terms of carbon dioxide...

I love cartoons. I always have. Perhaps it’s the child in me. Anyway, yesterday I received an email from Seppo Leinonen, a cartoonist and illustrator from Finland. Seppo was emailing to inform me of his weekly cartoon feature. Seppo’s feature cartoon this week is in response to one of our recent posts, which provided details of a recent study finding that organic milk reduces childhood eczema. A smaller version of Seppo’s artwork appears to the side of this post. Good fun! If you enjoy cartoons, please visit Seppo’s website which contains an array of humorous and sharp-witted observations on all things environmental. There is some fabulous work on his site and I for one will be visiting often. Humour and laughter certainly make the world...