Re: Organic farming questions

Posted by fixerupper on August 24, 2018 at 07:59:22 from (108.161.63.136):

In Reply to: Organic farming questions posted by Lazy WP on August 23, 2018 at 19:34:59:

I don't farm organic, nor do I ever plan to but I am not against it. Like Brett said we are free to pick and choose just about any farming practice to use as an example to enforce our beliefs.



When I was on the harvest we harvested wheat for an organic farmer in Colorado. He looked like an old hippie from the 60's but he was a very intelligent and progressive person. His wheat was clean and yielded respectably in comparison to neighboring farmers. I do realize raising wheat in Colorado is a world apart from raising row crops here in Iowa where we have black soil along with more rain and humidity.

Here at home in Iowa there is an organic farmer a few miles from me who will have one clean field, then another field of weeds. His crops as a whole do not look that good. The land he farms was owned by an eccentric old bachelor who did not want chemicals used on his land. The original land owner has passed away but the land is still organic so I'm guessing there is a no chemical stipulation in the lease.

An organic farm here in Iowa's row crop area does not need to be a weedy mess. When I was a kid we farmed organic, everyone did. We had clean crops, it just took a lot more man hours per acre to raise that organic crop including (groan) walking the corn and beans to pull weeds. We had more farmers with big families to provide the labor.

If organic farming was suddenly legislated as being the only farming practice we could use we wouldn't have nearly enough labor force to make it work. We would need many more steering wheel holders and grunt workers. Maybe someday we will have drone tractors that will pull row crop cultivators to handle the weeds but that's not going to happen anytime soon. The labor force that could walk the fields to rogue weeds is a hot topic I won't touch.

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