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  • From: Pamela Crowe <sustainableharvestsc AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 15:49:10 -0400

What I  am starting to  see is that people are jumping into organic thinking there is all this money to be made. There have sprung up some compost makers that are now charging four(4) times the going rate for their products, etc. I have been hit on to buy for outrageous sums biochar, etc.  The movement is getting infiltrated with those who main aim is not mine or other farmers.
Or I talk to some of these conventional Ag farmers and they just want to apply compost instead of fertilizer---------then complain that the crop looks better, etc. with fertilizer. They just keep using the wrong foundational belief to start with. They reject what I do and have gone to skimping on the use of fertilizers, etc.
 
All the while people keep going to the grocery stores and complaining that food has no taste.
 
It's just so amazing!!!!
 
Pam
SC
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM, William H Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu> wrote:

I think change will come slowly, as prices for oil-based products rise. There’s nothing like money to change behavior. But down the road we’ll look back and think it was fast (for those young enough!). I just hope it doesn’t look tragic by then. Of course, by then, the prices you charge may be different too.

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu


 




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