title: CLOSING THE PLANT-ANIMAL LOOP: A PREREQUISITE FOR ORGANIC FARMING creator: Bleken, Marina A. creator: Steinshamn, Håvard creator: Thuen, Erling creator: Koesling, Matthias subject: Production systems description: An analysis of a number of published surveys of dairy farms in Europe is used to exemplify the consequences of the use of external feed on nitrogen loss from organic animal productions. It is concluded that the present international regulations are not adequate to enforce the adoption of environmentally friendly and sustainable organic production systems, in harmonious balance between crop production and animal husbandry. date: 2005 type: Conference paper, poster, etc. type: NonPeerReviewed format: source identifier: http://orgprints.org/4304/3/Bleken_etal_4p_revised-ed.doc identifier: Bleken, Marina A.; Steinshamn, Håvard; Thuen, Erling and Koesling, Matthias (2005) CLOSING THE PLANT-ANIMAL LOOP: A PREREQUISITE FOR ORGANIC FARMING. Researching Sustainable Systems - International Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture, Adelaide, Australia, September 21-23, 2005. [ Unpublished, ] relation: http://orgprints.org/4304/