The concept of organization agricultural

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The aim of biodynamic agriculture is to create a farm which work like a living organism.
This term includes all that forms part of the farm and live there : ground, domestic animals and the Men who work there, but also the wild plants, wood, the ponds, the brooks, the birds, the insects, the other wild beasts, local climate, seasons, rhythms. All these elements are interactive and independent.
Indeed, one of the essential characteristics of the organiz, is not the addition of various organs but well the coordinated interactions, the interdependence between its various elements and its environment.

Quotation of Rudolf Steiner : " a farm answers its highest vocation when it can be defined as a kind of individuality, an individuality really centered in itself. Ande very farm should in fact tender towards this state. It is not possible to reach it completely ; but it must tend towards the state of an individuality centered in itself. That it is necessary to give oneself the means of having all which one needs for the production within, the farm, of which the livestock forms obviously integral part.
At the bottom, all the fertilizers and other similar products, introduced from outside should be considered, in a case where the organism would be ideal, like remedies for a farm fallen sick. "

We voluntarily choose the concept " of organism " rather than that of " system " (agro ecosystem) in order to rather stress on the interrelationships than on globality.

The various organs of an organism exist and have a meaning only compared to the whole, to the entire organism. This is quite as valid for the unicellular organism as for the most complex, vegetable and superiors animal.

The processes proceeding in the inorganic world strictly follow physical laws. Each inorganic phenomenon has a well determined cause : substance or physical force. One can then speak about " system ". However these physical laws are not enough to understand the plants and the animals with the diversity of their forms, colors and reactions. The living organisms have a specific activity, forms, colors and reactions. They have specific forms which evolve in time, a vital cycle and relations with their environment.

Under the organizing hand of the Man, this organism produces human and animal sood. It becomes a cultural realization accomplished by the human being.

One can quantify the success of these efforts on the following points :
    ● The quantitative and qualitative yield
    ● Income/outcome ratio
    ● Sustaimability

The agricultural organization has the role to be characterized by good average outputs, the constancy of its results and its stability in case of crises.

Agriculture has the effect of being the meeting of the world, nature and the human activity. This dual membership gives him its originality but imposes constraints to him.

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