Randy wrote:

>>>> 

The organic growers are examples for future sustainability.  I've read the
Calif Farm Bureau newspaper weekly for years, and see the entire ag industry
slowly adopting methods first embraced by organic farmers, that have now
become cost effective.

>>>>>> 

 

If only this could be true. I doubt we'll ever get the toothpaste back in
the tube because of the very immensity of agriculture. If a farmer decides
to forgo one crop a year and plant a green manure crop and plow it under,
it's the equivalent of taking half or a third of his land out of production.
An organic farmer being small, might do this. Scale it up to a company that
owns a million acres and stockholders start to squawk. Meanwhile the
competition has chemistry working for it. Have you heard about chemigation?
Putting pesticides in the irrigation water?

 

But I may be wrong. What organic practices do you see that would work in a
commercial operation?

 

Dick  


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