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To: Oblomov who wrote (1266)7/26/2005 4:49:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 24213
 
That article sez labor costs are 15% more. When I was doing it on the Farmer's Market circuit, the labor was my job. Just paid lousy. But almost no inputs; we had chickens, I had access to horse manure. Only costs were sulfur and dormant oil (salmon based, actually), and a protein/peptide anti-freeze for the trees.
My sense is that it has always cost more because the growers and merchants could get away with it.



To: Oblomov who wrote (1266)7/26/2005 10:08:24 PM
From: Ron  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 24213
 
Organic is more labor intensive. Takes more work to produce the same amount of food. If you've ever tried to grow tomatoes or cukes or zucchini or lettuce completely free of pesticides, you'll see what I mean. Most folks just plant extra, so they'll have some left after the bugs have arrived. But I'll take vegetables with a bug bite here and there to the crap churned out by pissed off chemical plant workers, any day. Tastes better too.


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