Posted by farmerboy on February 01, 2011 at 21:11:42 from (75.100.218.101):
In Reply to: Organic Milk posted by 37 Chief on February 01, 2011 at 18:04:35:
It sure is easy to badmouth something you don't have a clue about.
Organic to "me" is a way for a guy to get a fair price for his products by treating his animals humanely, not like a production unit. Others try to make a living by getting big and running the farm like a factory. Either way is risky and fraught with many pitfalls.
I grew up on a conventional dairy in the 1980's. We had 60 Holstiens milking in a tie-stall barn. On our road, there were 9 farms. 7 farms milked cows and we had the biggest herd. Today, that same road has three farms milking, one went organic, one got big (still small by today's standards @ 200 milking) and one is gonna quit this year. The big guy is hanging by a thread. The organic guy is gonna be the last one milking and he's in the process of transferring the farm to two of his sons.
Bigger isn't always better. Sometimes better is better.
Now, some big farms are trying to cash in on the organic tide, but they don't have a clue about what being truly sustainably organic means. They put 200 or 2000 cows on a couple-acre dirt lot and call it "pastured". They buy all thier feed and have it shipped in from miles away. They'll fail and badmouth organic to make themselves feel better.
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