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  • From: CAVM AT aol.com
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Organic egg producer looking for organic grain
  • Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:45:45 EST

http://www.timeswrsw.com/N1203041.HTM

12-03-2004
Egg Processor Makes Plea For Organic Grain
BY TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer
KENDALLVILLE – Egg Innovations needs 7,000 acres of organically
produced grain, preferably grown as close to the Atwood processing
center as possible. The company is appealing to regional farmers to
grow the pesticide- and herbicide-free grain.

"The demand for organic feed is tremendous," said Bob Schwartz, a
consultant for Egg Innovations, at a Farm Bureau-sponsored conference
about organic egg and grain production Thursday. "Last year we had a
four-month feed supply produced in this country; the rest had to come
from Brazil. We have to have partnerships with farmers able to raise
these crops."

Schwartz threw out prices of $12 a bushel for soybeans, $6.50 a bushel
for corn and $6 a bushel for wheat grown organically.

Egg Innovations markets and sells organic eggs as well as cage-free,
Omega 3 and vegetarian eggs. They partner with people to raise the
chickens (flocks of 16,000 to produce organic eggs). The birds are
raised cage-free and have access to the outdoors. Ideally, the organic
grain would be grown within a 10-mile area. There is an organic feed
mill in Pierceton.


  • [Market-farming] Organic egg producer looking for organic grain, CAVM, 12/05/2004

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