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Looking for something beyond organic Here are excerpts from three of the items on CropChoice this week.
1. Looking for something beyond organic...I am a small-scale organic dairy farmer and I am disheartened.
No, not with organic farming. That works fine. Five years ago when I switched from almost-organic to full organic, I hoped our family would be able to produce milk for an organic milk and cheese market. But that has not come to fruition because the United States Department of Agriculture and I don't see eye to eye...http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstry.asp?RecID=982
2. Bloody Butcher... "We have an OCIA certified organic 200-acre farm in iowa. With the lack of organic seed supply, I have started to sell some of my seed stock to other organic farmers. The red corn I sell is 'bloody butcher,' an open pollinated corn from the 1840's that was used as feed in Iowa. It came from an accidental cross between Indian corn...http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstry.asp?recid=978
3. A myth transformed into political orthodoxy... "Perhaps the greatest achievement of the biotechnology industry has been in creating...http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstry.asp?recid=987
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