Organic farms yield less produce, require more land: study

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35. I agree to a point

I'm naturally skeptical because of what I've learned in my marketing courses. So many of these studies are marketed to report conclusions that didn't even happen in the actual study. I don't immediately disregard, but I do have skepticism when I see any anti-organic studies. If I do some digging and find out there is no conflicts of interest, fine, but not too long ago here in Canada, there was a documentary about even the highest, most respected academic minds here were not declaring possible conflicts of interest on their research and NO ONE knew, or was calling them on it until this documentary. Apparently that's the general way of operating according to interviews with plenty of other universities around North America, so I generally come from a place of skepticism first and foremost. And I see from re-reading this study that the headline does not match the conclusion, which support my original marketing theory. I have no problems waiting for further studies. I generally don't automatically accept a conclusion from one specific study, I wait for the entire body of evidence (and then make sure one side isn't funded by X while the other side is funded by Y).