Our son is a produce inspector at a Walmart distribution center. The parameters that he has to go by are totally different between Commercial/All natural, as compared to Organic. He says that a large percentage of the organic produce comes no where close to the specifications for commercial produce. Those perimeters include temp, condition/freshness, bruising, shape, color, and so on. Other words eye appeal when in the retail dispensers. He says the organic stuff is poorly shaped weird colors, often damaged requiring rejection. We grow a large garden and rely on it year round, but we would not be successful without the use of commercial fertilizers. The nutrients in the soil need to be replenished each crop year. We all know that beets for example are high in Iron. Beets absorb iron from the soil. If the soil runs low on iron, the beets are also low on iron and not as healthy for a person. I also wonder how any producer can label honey as organic. Who tells the bees which fields they can gather nectar in?????
Last year an organic beef farmer rented the field next to me which has been organic since the word became common, and plowed it and seeded it to wheat. The weeds grew taller than the wheat and he never harvested it. It is now just setting there again waiting to be bushoged to insure there will be a continued crop of weeds. This year with all the wet weather we have had, the field has become a breading ground for hard shelled snails. They are overrunning us. In my opinion, this is a total waste of 20A that could be producing good usable crops. I am far from being a fan of organics. It might work for someone with a roadside produce stand if they enjoy pulling weeds 7 days a week.---------Loren
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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