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To: Ish who wrote (106876)	7/20/2005 11:20:35 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You have a point, Ish (if organic is so good, why aren't more people doing it?) but no proof that pesticide agriculture produces more corn and soybeans than ogranic agriculture. All of your evidence is anecdotal. At least Cornell bothered to do a very long-range research study. I think there are some farmers who think organic farming is a hippie dippie thing, and just don't want to get involved with it. There's a social stigma, in other words. However, if you look at the organic farming online newsletters you fill find that the farmers are very conservative and authentically farmer-looking, not hippies at all. I just don't think you or your friends at the coffee shop have much interest in trying anything different that takes a couple of years to learn how to do correctly. You just want to make a profit, and don't wish to factor in social good or the pollution factor, really, because you're farming to produce income, not for ideological reasons so much. I showed you the website for this organic farming journal before--here it is again. The page I'm sending you to is interesting because it is about organic farmers all over the states, plus the larger world. You can even fill out a simple form and start this wonderful publication coming right to your inbox! newfarm.org