Re: Organic 'Fad' Grows

Posted by rockyridgefarm on April 19, 2018 at 03:57:23 from (69.131.200.47):

In Reply to: Organic 'Fad' Grows posted by Traditional Farmer on April 18, 2018 at 05:32:16:

Jdseller,

I focus on the chemical / overproduction side of it. I spent 8 years as an applicator and I saw all the crap that goes into conventional grain and vegetable production. I also drove truck for canners and saw the huge amount of waste in production - dumpsters full of canned corn going straight to the crusher because it didn’t “make spec”. Green bean pickers leaving a half acre of beans because they saw a handful of Canada thistle and the canner doesn’t want to risk getting a seed head in the cans. Million bushel piles of bad corn being ”blended” into good corn. Then you go into the store and you can buy a bag of Idaho potatoes in Wisconsin for a few bucks , and you can go to Idaho and buy Wisconsin potatoes for a few bucks, and you know where the profit went for both farmers... There’s a member of this forum that likes to say “There is no product the American farmer cannot overproduce ito worthlessness”.

You’ve chosen to go the low profit/high volume route. I’ve chosen to go the added value route. I always correct buyers when they talk about some of the garbage they’ve heard, like the “more nutritious” stuff. I also give them the reasons I AM organic, and it is always the use of chemicals and the issue of confinement animal operations. Then I ask them if they fertilize or spray their lawn. If they say yes, I tell them they may as well buy the cheapest food because they’re defeating any good they think they are doing by buying organic food.

If I could be not organic and chemical free and push the local, small producer aspect of my operation, I would. Being certified is a pita. I just got my results back for gmo contamination in my corn and it came back 2%. Now I’m not a huge anti-gmoer, I’m anti chemical overuse and I’m also anti-patenting living organisms and I’m also extremely anti-Monsanto and syngentas business practices of trying to buy up all independent seed producers. What will come of that??? So now I have to write up a big report on why I have 2% contamination.

So I don’t think your problem is with me, or at least I hope it isn’t. It’s with the marketers, and I have the same dislike of how they do things. But I am gonna stay organic only because I don’t want to own a 12 row planter, let alone a 16, and I don’t want to run down the road from dead family farm to dead family farm to make a couple bucks per acre.

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• Re: Organic 'Fad' Grows Traditional Farmer 05:18:14 04/19/18 (0)

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