paragraph comprehension qestion

[srjayanthi]

The following is a paragraph from an article about local organic farming vs. conventional in terms of organic efficiency.

I don't understand the last three lines (the quotes confuse me). Can someone please decipher this for me?

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If small farming turns out to be more energy efficient, Martin believes it might also be a good way to save disappearing fields. "Farmland around the urban edges is probably lost at a greater rate than any other," she says. "In Illinois, this is good soil that we’re losing to development." Small, diversified farms might be more stalwart than corn-and-soy farms, "where the economic balance is, how are the subsidies looking this year? At some point it’s just going to tip over to development. Small-scale diversified is a growing market with lots of demand."

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Thanks,
SJ

[RonPurewal]

hi -

two things:

1 * we are absolutely forbidden from replying to posts that don't quote sources. please cite the source of this article; thanks.

2 * you will not see articles like this, with embedded quotes, on the gmat. in fact, i've never seen a quote in ANY gmat reading comp passage.