Posted by RodInNS on February 01, 2011 at 21:38:14 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Re: Organic Milk posted by farmerboy on February 01, 2011 at 21:11:42:
Cash in on what exactly? In some places the market for 'organic' milk has already been flooded with the surplus getting dumpend into the 'conventional' market at a price they can't hope to survive on. Milk dumping was common in Europe and the UK in 2009 after the economic crash and the pain was a lot worse for the organic bunch. Most of what I see in 'organic' agriculture is based on maintaing a dogma that existed 90 years ago while concoctign a PR speil around 'sustainability' to sell it to well meaning people who want to believe it's 'better'. How is running a sprayer with roundup in any way less sustainable than burning thousands of gallons of diesel to drag a plow, harrow and cultivator around to control weeds? I'd wager that less resources are used with chemicals...
Agriculture is a business and those who manage better than the rest will survive. I don't beleive that has much to do with size but adapting to prevaling conditions and using your given advantages to the best benefit. NZ does this by running a pastoral based agriculture system and maintaining very low overhead. When you have crops actively growing 11 months out of 12... that's probably not so hard. When you get into our system and climate where feed needs to be stored for 7 months, all of the infrastructure needs to be bought/built to support that... and then idle it for 5 months so you can set out to pasture (using yet another major set of infrastructure)... it doesn't really make much sense to me from a cost standpoint. Running one system at maximum efficiency makes more sense to me. So... it brings me back to the original point... organic is about dogma.
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