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as the underlying, model or ideal-type, orientations in acting and decision-making processes
in the non-organic and organic world.
Fig. 2. Farm related environment
4.2 Non-organic farming
The non-organic corn-soybean system is largely possible on flat arable lands that enable a
type of farm style and size associated largely with the Midwestern states in the US. It creates
a linear landscape structure of very large, “fencerow-to-fencerow” fields 9 designed to
facilitate the use of very large equipment. The practice of corn-soybean cropping creates and
organizes a particular type of landscape, based on specific arrangements of artifacts. This
type structure of agro-industrial landscape dominated by extremely large machinery and
absent of people illustrates what Schatzki refers to as the co-constitutive relation between
practices and arrangements (2010, 140).
9 Field: agronomic unit; social field as part of a social space (Bourdieu 1990, 1988, 1983): the entity of
societal interactions and constellations; fields are e.g. politics, economy or arts: sub fields are e.g. field of
literature, of school or university, which differentiate in the field of literacy and the cultural field