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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <awiediger AT HART.k12.ky.us>
  • To: "'market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] contaminated lettuce
  • Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:25:09 -0600

Yes, and in Spudman magazine, a very conventional potato growers
publication, one editorial predicted that "all farming will be organic in 20
years".... I don't believe that, but to see such speculation in a very
"agribusiness" magazine, amid all the ads for chemicals, was
interesting..... He went on to say that if you thought youth wasn't
interested in farming, you should visit some alternative ag conferences and
look around, and that he believes that farms will either be very large
corporate, or small niche, such as market growers, organic, herb etc who are
marketing directly.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

> ----------
> From: HackettShark AT aol.com[SMTP:HackettShark AT aol.com]
>
> I'm thinking that he will down the road change his tune now that all the
> big boys are getting in the organic growing practices. Interesting
> article in the Progressive Farmer mag this month about all the big boys
> that have changed there operations and investing in a really big way, were
> talking the really large farmers. Mission Organics has 6000 acres of
> lettuce and other greens in California, another big company Small Planet
> Foods is a subsidiary of General Mills, and there have been several
> Marketing Coops started up in the last year in California and Colorado.
>
> People like Avery only go's to whoever is paying him for him mouth.
>
> Phil
>




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