Mike Expecting To Fly wrote:
I'm hungry for some cheapo food so I'm off to Safeway
(can't afford that expensive organic stuff). Plus, I sure
didn't see any organic food selections at the Farm Aid
venue. If Neil and the organizers really wanted to show
the value of organic foods to ordinary people like those
who support this show by attending, it seems they could at
least feature some affordable organic selections at the
concessions, instead of that extremely expensive processed
crap they sell which I am quite sure came from factory
farms.
To which I respond:
For a farmer to start farming organic food he/she would have to leave their field fallow for at least two years (it then gets tested for acidity etc.). My father-in law tried organic farming on a quarter section about 4 years ago. He said that the final yield was much less than another quarter section of the same crop and that as a result it generated less money.
Many farmers don't have time or money to farm organically (after all they are ordinary people also)...there's bills to be paid and land to be mortgaged.
Newf (who's married to a farmgirl)
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