One field will make it!

[may-be]

As a farmer I will never farm organic. I hate weeds and sitting on a tracter.
As a consumer I am glad to have more choices. Food is one of my least expenses so why not be fussy. I dont care if it is organic or not. I buy on taste and looks. Most meat is free range and killed on site. Most veggies are from my garden. I cannot buy this quality food at the store. The stuff i buy has to appeal to me. In a small way when I buy organic fruit or veggies I feel better about the product while I eat it Knowing there is not chemicals on it. I can see why some people that are never around chemicals buy organic. How can you fully trust the scientists when products are put on the shelfs then taken off? IMO organics is here to stay no matter if it is proven to be no healthier for you or not.
Glad I don't have a poorer organic farmer beside me though. lol.

[parsley]

I will admit, I was having laughing-sport, checking, and still am. LOL

Soon, btw, I will be gophering into the mineral tax boxes. In September. I haven't forgotten. Pars

[ado089]

It's seems to me when organic farming was all the rage, ie. prior to the 1940's, there was a whole lot of mass starvation, exodus, disease, war, plagues and so on. Not to mention about 4 billion less people and 3 feet less top soil on the prairies than when we got here. Who's really selling what here? I don't really care what farming method works for you or not, as long as you are profitable and even more importantly sustainable. What does really get me worked up is that this food safety buisness has been spun around and twisted so much by marketing firms and self-proclaimed "google experts" that it's hard to tell the pigs from the men anymore.

[sumdumguy]

Lentils are supposed to be healthy for us, but I don't eat the desiccated ones. Now that wheat is being desiccated, I guess I'll be wary of the bread I eat. Wonder if all this spray is necessary. I prefer the nice green lentils that are swathed and better still the organic ones not the pale, washed out ones- so the guy at the Milestone corner - get the combine out- bet they aren't any worse than the standing beans.

[Fransisco]

Penn and Teller take an interesting look at organics at the following link.

It's a half hour show. Mind the F bombs though they're everywhere. Once the page loads hit the play button in the center of the screen a couple of times.

http://www.bigvidpro.com/?v=W4tL3NHD1ZPra7AtnIJPwA

I think the banana taste test at the end says it all.

[Fransisco]

And oops, I forgot to mention the full frontal nudity at the end as well. You might not want to watch this with the kiddies around.

[parsley]

Can you imagine what the dozens of fransisco's were like twenty years ago, when organics was just beginning to make an entry into Superstore et al? LOL Lawsey, lawsey.

Now, fran, if you can just blacken teeth and paint a moustache on all pictures of organic farmers, organics will surely be enhanced futher. After all, when we can laugh at ourselves, we know we landed safe on third base.

And of course,sumdum, we all recall the farmers types who were 'meat and gravey men' and would eat absolutely no lentils, (lol, remember,) who, in fact, wouldn't roll a lentil around in his mouth if you placed it there with a french kiss.

But, the farm community has been refreshed more often these days, and most farmers have travelled more, and tried different foods, and are becoing more incontinental in their choices and in their outlooks. And becoming a pinch more accepting

The reason organics was able to make any kind of entry at all into mainstream agriculture was because consumers were the pillars of both agronomy and market development.

ie: Buyers would say they wanted Ireland Creek Annie beans in the store they shopped in and you could count on it, two days later the storekeeper would phone to buy stock.

We can all learn things from the people who buy the food we produce, if we first develop the mindset needed to listen to them, and then we need to take the time to listen.


Maybe then, farmers themselves,will actually begin to listen to and support each other as well, imho.

pars

[parsley]

Well, too many bad choices would make anyone pee themselves.

[Fransisco]

I have no problem being supportive of an organic farmers right to carry on their buisness and satisfy their customers needs.

To each his own, live and let live and all that Jazz.

However,IMHO it seems there are few organics who recipricate when it comes to conventional farming.

Pars, you of all people should realize, when you keep taking cheap shots at conventional farmers at some point you're going to start getting them back.

[parsley]

They were expensive shots, you wouldn't have called. LOL Pars

[parsley]

It should be:

OR you wouldn't have called.

[boarderbloke]

What does "organic" mean anyway??? Aren't there different interpretations for different organic groups???

I farm next to someone (only an old fence line separating us) who switched over to organic. I put up with thistles, dandelions, and foxtail barley flying over to my side while I don't dare let any chemical drift to his, even though it would help his situation. So now six years have past and he's fully organic! This year he was pre-working his field (with his airseeder) the day I moved onto mine. You could clearly see the urea all along the headland where he lifted out! I didn't think "Organic" growers could use Urea???