Proud of your product

[hobbyfrmr]

Similar to biglentil's thoughts, about 4 years after I stepped off the chem/ fert Ferris wheel and took an unbiased look at the conventional retail industry, and the line company/commodity markets, I realized those companies have a ripe market. The push for zero till, the dependency on glyphosate all in the name of "feeding the world" and "efficiency" they are vacuuming billions of dollars of wealth from farms in western Canada. I am not saying you guys are doing wrong, I just see how the market uses rhetoric and noble themes to motivate farmers spending. One way to succeed was to expand and expand and become more efficient and grow more. My farm is too small to fit in that production paradigm. Thankfully, demand for organic grains has grown, otherwise I would be just another one of them there hippy farmers!
Tweety you had a good observation, no one answered the question posed!
I was raised not to get too proud because in life, there are events that can put you back in your place! I definitely like the challenge of organic farming, I like the fact that 80% of my production gets sold for milling quality, and I like that the general public likes what I am doing. It has been a long time since I could say that out loud!

[ado089]

Big lentil are you an organic producer?

[sumdumguy]

that is my fear too Biglentil. Do we close one eye and continue to allow these bought off "researchers" lead us into the fire?

[sumdumguy]

Just speaking to an Ag Canada researcher the other day, been doing it for eleven years, didn't know what the word "determinate" meant.

[stonepicker]

That's funny lentil, "glyphosate has been declared a likely carcinogen" I'm sure that statement is completely science based and factually proven! But yet you believe that horseshit and any other piece of garbage that you WANT to be true. So why has avg. life expectancy risen so much in the last 50 years? Why are young adults taller etc. than they were 50 years ago? Could it be better nutrition? 'm sure though that the heavy recreational use of pot, cocaine and crystal meth etc. have no effect on more autism, cancer etc.

[sumdumguy]

Point taken, Stoner. There are many, many threats to our well-being. If you believe that a more conscious world will accept product sprayed by chemicals right before harvest forever, then good on you, but I don't believe the world will want it, thanx, for your opinion, though.

[stonepicker]

More concious world, or more uninformed world? Or should i say misinformed. Take gluten, gluten free is all the rage now, why? Very few people in the world have gluten intolerance, yet guys like you hop on the bandwagon and declare gluten bad, it's a protein for crying out loud. It's far more a good thing than a bad thing! ( My son had gluten intolerance when he was a kid, he's an adult now and he grew out of it ) also someone mentioned that pre harvest roundup affects quality and germination? If you spray way too early it does, but how many morons do that? Spray when the crop is ripe and no prob.!

[pourfarmer]

Actually there are studies that suggest gluten sensitivity issues are the result of pre harvest desiccation.

[stonepicker]

Here we go again, studies that suggest something, studies that imply something! Has common sense left the world. There was a guy on tv quite awhile back that said " you tell me what you want the study to show and i can make it show it". If you had a study with 100 people that smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day and also ate nothing but organic food, and 25 got lung cancer, then you could legitamately say that there is a link between organic food and cancer.

[sumdumguy]

I've been wondering why this gluten intolerance. Never heard of it years ago. Gotta wonder what has changed. Maybe we are just evolving more intolerant-what with all the nut allergies, lactose allergies that were very rare years ago. Who knows, maybe we better ask Stoner?