PHILOSOPHY OR MANAGEMENT DECISION

There is a tremendous amount of publicity today over the way the farmer is practicing his/her trade. Unfortunately, most of this publicity is being generated by non-farmers and even by people totally unrelated to the farming industry. Fortunately, we live in a country where the individual citizen does have a say in how his food is produced and, even more fortunately, he has some type of choice.

Agriculture is like no other industry. It is the mother industry. It is the foundation to economic stability, a fact that is seemingly obscure to the policy makers and economists. Even further, agriculture determines, long term, the health and strength, both mentally and physically, of the country. I suggest the reading of Nutrition and Your Mind by George Watson.

For the most part, the rap on chemical agriculture stems more from a philosophy argument than a business management foundation. This is mostly due to the fact that the people involved have a very limited understanding of how the biosystem really functions. It is stated that chemical agriculture is unsafe and non-environmentally sound, but high producing. That is quite contradictory. It is said that non-chemical agriculture is environmentally sound, safe and peaceful, but less productive; a fact that we will just have to learn to get along with if we really want to survive. That is contradictory. What evolves is a heated argument about philosophy. What needs to be discussed is management and economics. That is the nature of our society and it's continued survival. Once this is realized, then one can get down to the real truths. Chemical agriculture is not higher producing, more efficient, or more profitable than non-chemical agriculture. If one is farming without chemicals, yet still using the same rules and logic as if he were farming with chemicals, his "non-chemical" farming would, in fact, result in a poorer system. This is where many uninformed organic producers are trapped producing "certified" product that is as poor or worse than non-certified product in reference to nutrition and aesthetics. Nutrition is the first and last word regardless of growing technique. If we balance our soils nutritionally, which infers also biologically, then we won't need poisons to rescue the crop or super hybrids to resist the poisons. Genetic flaw is not agriculture's nemesis. Poor nutrition is the nemesis. Nutrition determines genetic expression.

Balance your soil, feed your fellow man, and transform the world

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