Home from the fields early today. Farm the memes then.
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Because they don't exist, or are 100% impractical. See Sri Lanka. Going full bio in commercial production is not practical. If you know, you know.
My wife and I produce almost $100k in mixed vegetables on less than 2 acres with just compost. Highest quality vegetables around. My only complaint is using some ground cover and insect netting (to avoid spraying). I hope to switch to scything my own mulch when I get to purchase land and switch from leased land. We feed 24 families a week $35 worth of vegetables and are bringing in $3k a week easy at our 2 farmers markets from March-December. Just 2 people. 2 acres. And shit loads of wheel barrows of compost.
Thats excellent! Organic def has its place, i just dont see it in commercial. For insect control you can purchase nursery reared predacious insects. When i was in organic farming we sprayed just like normal too. Just used registered organic products like sulfur, or PAA, or pyrethrins. Lots of spray options exist in a strict organic program
Indeed, but we try to go beyond organic by not spraying at all. No desire to support the chemical and pharmaceutical companies that produce them.
To each their own. It doesnt make you "less organic" to lay down bio pesticides. To this day i regularly incorporate bio pesticides into our chemical program with great success. The efficacy of chemicals is def wearing tho so we are seeing a lot more integration globally, which is good news on the organic front. What saddens me is the misconceptions about American farmers. The regular farmer is a proud, fiscal conservative that doesnt like to waste money on things like overuse of pesticides for example. Chemicals are crazy expensive, its a huge waste of money to over use or mis use. Because those particular chemicals will potentially not be a viable option for control in years to come. I look forwars to more farming related posts from you! Farmers are few and far between anymore=)