> organic farming performs better than conventional for nearly all crop types when energy use is expressed on a unit of area basis

Well, of course. But that's a useless measurement. The whole point of hi-tech farming is to increase the density. Organic farming is less efficient for unit of food produced.

"Organic farming is less efficient for unit of food produced."

Do you have data on that?

Ironically one of the source wrongly cited in the article says the contrary (ie organic is more efficient on energy per unit of food), see my comment below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444679

That's the next sentence on the article that I quoted (in the abstract).

I don't see it saying that. It says the results are more variable on a per unit basis. This article says organic is still more energy efficient on a per unit basis.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-resource-1...

My new HyperOrganic™ farming wins - only one seed allowed per acre, and minimal energy usage per unit of area.