Re educate the public, or go back tot he stone ages and create food shortages and poor crops?
A cherry picked location, soil type, and cheap labor (kids) can make a pretty good organic farm.
Too feed the masses, it takes something else.
When corn went to $7, earlier when wheat went to $20 briefly, there was a hue and cry and calls for action to lower prices, we farmers were breaking the bakers, we were forcing people to starve.....
But that is what organic stuff costs, that would be the regular price......
People answer surveys one way, then shop the store shelves a different way.
How do you reconcile that?
Was a big outcry when Hostess went out of business briefly and people couldn’t get their Ho-Hos.
We need to eradicate the bad infor people like Traditional Farmer puts out, and re educate people to make wise choices that match what is possible.
I’m not against organic, I feel we need a sustainable, plentiful, wholesome food supply and we won’t get that with just organic.
Bigger scale organic needs to pull nutrition from somewhere, they often are gathering manure from conventional farms, or seaweed and fish from the waters to replenish their farm land. These things are not sustainable, and are very hard to create a balanced soil.
Weed and insect infestations come and go, exposing us to year to year shortages as there is nothing in the organic toolbox to react to such things.
And so on.
I’m glad people have choices, and organic will always be a nitche market for some affluent people. That’s cool, it helps out some small farms as mentioned here often.
For a national food supply year in and year out, one would have to be daft to think it works out well. Look around, the countries that don’t have modern Ag are the ones importing feed and food from those countries that ipise modern practices.
Think folks hate farmers now, let them get hungry and then we are in for a ride......
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