Southeast Wyoming | jame - 7/29/2015 23:32 I've rarely seen an industry so determined to fail. In any other industry, you adapt to market demand, or you fail. It really is that simple. What I seem to be watching in this thread is business Darwinism at it's finest. We're conventional farmers here, but we understand what's happening. We are about to enter a market shift, and we just aren't sure if we want to make the change. Deindustrialization is what this country needs to maintain an effective economy, and the changes are already happening.
So do you think there is little market demand for gmo or conventionally grown produce?
Yes, it really is simple but you do not seem to get it. Today there may not be enough "organic" production to met the hyped niche market for "organically" grown produce, but that demand is not very great in the scheme of things. The production is low.
Catch phrases such as "Deindustrialization", "antiGMO", "Organic" and etc play well in the social media as long as there are dollars to float the bubble. Once the dollars come back in line with the value they represent, good ol' "land of plenty" values and production will once again be widely recognized as the best food source, the best dollar value, in the world. Mechanization has not hurt farming, but liberalization carries with it the image of devaluation of productive enterprise. "Home grown organic", "organic communes" and that "organic aisle" in the supermarket get a lot of air time and ink but they do not feed a lot of people.
Most of us recognize that it will not take much additional "organic" production to glut that niche market, destroying the artificial price structure. Why bother when there is great demand for our product in spite of false claims of those concerned more with wealth than with health. |
Organic shown to be a hoax
