Is organic farming gaining acceptance in the midwest?

Question

New Mexico and parts of Colorado seem to be embracing the nonuse of chemical herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizer. Is it happening at all in the midwest, OK,KS,NE, MO?

Answer 1

The acceptance of organic farming is taking place almost everywhere on a small scale.  I don't think that you will find many large scales farms going to organic agriculture very soon in the Midwest or anywhere.  The market for organically grown crops is too small to make it profitable on large acreages at this time.  There are a few exceptions to this, of course.  A large dairy farm might find a market for it's milk if it sold it under it's own brand organically.  If you produced 1000 acres of organically grown corn, your market price would be the same as corn grown in the conventional manner.  You could not make it with the decreased yields.  Until organically grown foods get out of the speciality market stage organic farming will stay on a small stage.

Answer 2

Okay.

Soon, all those organic farmers will de driving Ford Ts...