So, I can haul grain from my field to the conventional elevator 3/4 mile from my driveway. They can store it for me, dry it for me, sell it when I need to sell it, deliver any grain I store on my farm any weekday I want and get a check 4 days later.
Or I can grow organic, and deliver it to the one buyer 23 miles away. When they want it. They will pay for it on their schedule. If they get full or their buyers change their mind, I am outa luck. My crop is sitting in my expensive bins, and on one within 100 miles wants them.
That premium looks real nice, but it has a -lot- of risk to it. If you are in a Mitch where the buyer is close and works well with you great. I'm all for it.
You know how much I would need to invest in crop drying, storeage, and transportation to go organic? How much risk in dealing with just one buyer?
Give it some though. I did a few years ago........
Organic costs a lot at the store. I don't understand what it offers to consumers, butt hat is their business. It doesn't offer much at all to the farmer, unless you are in a special nitche location or dirt or situation.
The actual direction this is all going is like General Mills. Screw the farmer don't need them. Control the land, hire a management firm from California, use technology to run the tractors and combines, hire very few people, no farmers, and vertically integrate.
If I had a nitche of organic that penciled out for me, I would do it. But I would understand the risk I was taking, and the overall short term the ride will last.
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