Market Farming

["Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>]

Jeff

    I like your choice. I think organic is a term that is suffering through
"re-definition" right now and I can understand people being wary. However, I
do think that as a body of people, the folks in the organic movement who
have the most at stake in this need to mobilize and act more than ever to
preserve their interests in the certification process. While it's not
perfect, it's what you've got. And there is room to improve it if the
support remains. Abandon it and the whole thing will fall apart.




-----Original Message-----
From: jeffery uhlig <juhlig AT mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: To certify or not to certify


>Hi list,
>Just to put our two cents worth in. This was to be our first season to
>certify. We will not. We do not agree that the Feds taking over the "O"
>word is a good thing, however the word no longer satisfies what we are
>trying to do here at Buff Rock Farm so we are going to use the word
>Sustainable in all our marketing materials and web site. Since most of
>our customers are referrals or web site contacts we can do a better job
>of explaining what we do in person to person mailings and contacts. I
>feel more for the large grain farms who will have to double certify
>because the EU and Japan certainly will not accept our governments
>definition of organic and they will have to certify to those entities
>standards if they want to sell in those markets.  Jeff Uhlig
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