AREC 210 Food Chain Writing Assignment 5 Due Submit on ELMS by Midnight EST March 10 Format Double spaced 12 point font normal margins 1 Length No more than 3 pages not less than 2 pages Be sure to put your name and assignment 5 on your submission Assignment Congratulations You ve gotten a job with an investment trust that owns 2 million acres of farmland The head of the trust just came over from a parent investment bank and knows nothing about agriculture He needs an introductory briefing on how farmers manage pests and you have to prepare it I d like you to describe compare and contrast the methods used by Raoul Adamchak the organic farmer in Tomorrow s Table and Justin Knopf the Kansas farmer in Horn s Rancher Farmer Fisherman Specifically I d like you to select at least three field practices used by Justin to control pests meaning weeds or insects And I d like you to select at least three practices used by Raoul to control pests at least one should be different than Justin s three I d like you to briefly describe each of the practices and tell me how each works to control weeds or insects While doing so I d also like you to distinguish between organic and conventional farming by specifying at least one practice that Justin can use but Raoul cannot and explain why Raoul cannot use it for organic production