Alternative Agriculture Scientists' Review

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July 10, 1990
Special Publication

Alternative Agriculture Scientists’ Review

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62300/3zngd247

Task Force Chairs

Lowell S. Jordan

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside

Authors

John R. Abernathy

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A&M University

Charles A. Black

Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University

Donald N. Duvick

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

Cornelia B. Flora

Department of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ralph W. Fogleman

Upper Black Eddy

Leonard Gianessi

Resources for the Future, Inc.

Joseph F. Guenthner

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho

Virgil W. Hays

Department of Animal Sciences, University of Kentucky

Barry J. Jacobsen

Department of Plant Pathology, Auburn University

Ellery L. Knake

Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

J. E. Legates

Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University

Arnold A. Paulsen

Department of Economics, Iowa State University

Gary D. Osweiler

Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University

Fred P. Miller

Department of Agronomy, The Ohio State University

John F. Marten

Staff Economist, Farm Journal

Gordon C. Marten

USDA, Agricultural Research Service

Gary A. Lee

Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Idaho

Robert C. Lanphier, III

AGMED Inc.

Patricia A. Kendall

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University

Thomas H. Jukes

Department of Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley

James L. Jordan

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California

William D. Hohenboken

Department of Animal Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Glenn A. Helmers

Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Richard R. Hahn

Kansas Agricultural Value-Added Center, Kansas State University

Richard S. Fawcett

Fawcett Consulting

Michael D. Duffy

Department of Economics, Iowa State University

Don W. Dickson

Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida

Robert M. Devlin

Cranberry Experiment Station, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Harold O. Carter

Agricultural Issues Center, University of California, Davis

Richard E. Bradley

College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida

Samuel R. Aldrich

Soil Fertility Extension, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract

Reviews by 44 leading scientists support and criticize the 1989 National Research Council report, Alternative Agriculture. The authors represent the disciplines of agricultural engineering, food science, toxicology, animal sciences, crop and soil sciences, economics sociology, weed science, entomology, and plant pathology.

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