What do you think will happen to organic farming by the year 2010?

Question

What do you think will happen to organic farming by the year 2010?

Answer 1

i don't think it exist in 2007 itself.

Answer 2

I think that Organic farming will have taken off and it will be more popular then it is now.  People are really into having healthy, pesticide and other chemical free vegetation now, and more and more people are eating more vegetables.

Answer 3

Nothing drastic, it will still be growing, picking up new farmers and new customers.  It will, however, remain a niche market, and not replace conventional farming.

Answer 4

since people in the United States are becoming more environmentally conscious people will most likely want to buy more organic foods also prices will drop due to better growing methods. for example in North Carolina, NC state is helping Christmas tree farmers grow trees more efficiently that's why N.C. make more money than any other state with Christmas trees. so apply my example to other products and you get cheaper and better products that are organic

Answer 5

I believe that it will become non-exsistant and the ideas of what are organic will become even more vague. Nothing can truly be organic. The organic farmers are in areas where other farmers choose non-organic approaches to agriculture. Agriculture is based upon preferable soil and climate type. Preferable conditions are not exclusively given to organic  farmers.

A farm down the street or even just north on a river will contribute some pollution to the water source, soil, and air. Even in people's own gardens where they may not add any pesticide/herbicides may have some amount of contaminants due to bagged topsoil and contaminated groundwater.  

Also, people seem to underestimate the control of large agribusiness firms such as Monsanto. If the trends continue then lobbyists will somehow contrive a way to squash organic farming and promote more GMO crops.

just my opinion :)

Answer 6

It will become commercialized by the large corporate entities like everything else.  Small commercial operations will have to do their own specialized marketing plans to achieve success.

Answer 7

HAVE TO AGREE WITH LAZY DAYS.

Answer 8

As I see it, organic farming has been around for as long farming has been around, and it really hasn't ever been viable in the bigger picture of feeding the masses. Indeed it is certainly becoming less so. There is a very small percentage of people willing to spend more money for a given amount of food because they perceive benefits for which science can't answer. Their hearts are probably in the right place, but that place isn't reality. Without modern technology and methods, including genetically enhanced crops and prudent use of pesticides and chemical fertilizer, the WORLD doesn't eat. While the elitests can afford their whimsical attitude and high price bread and veggies, there are people right here in the richest heart of good n plenty U.S.A. whose kids don't have what they need for proper nutrition. Now, as for the rest of the dirt poor world...let em eat some organic rocks instead, eh?

Answer 9

not much.  the changes have already happened.   it was once a way of farming that promoted the small farmer who cared about the land and how it was treated.  it has become an overused and abused term by large companies who have found a way to label their products organic using loopholes and paying for cooperation from the FDA.

Answer 10

I hope nothing but improvements but if the government becomes more involved I believe organic will be meaningless

Answer 11

I  think it stay the same as people I know have went to it and after there contact has run out they have went back to convectional farming.