Paul........I have been doing this organic stuff for a long time now.........and I have yet to see any article that I thought was worth reading that said that organics is better for a person--------------other than ADVERTISING.

The only organic farmer I have ever run into that thought his organic crap did not stink, was a fellow who had 20 acres of organic vegetables that he sold at a farmers market..............and it took about one minute of being polite and nodding my head to walk away from him, noting that he was no more of a serious farmer than my black Lab.

After you get past the MARKETING hype............where is this notion coming from?

I just haven't seen it-------- but then, I don't spend my time reading the trade magazines from the organic industry.

I'll tell you what does bother me, though..........and it is not organic farmers, not "corporate farmers"..........but dick-nosed politicians AND CONVENTIONAL FARMERS who don't pay enough attention to what is happening, the events caused by the idiot voters.............who are going to start limiting farming practices because of excesses which could be minimized by using some of the practices of "organic farmers"---------such as cover crops.

Case in point-------- the rose-colored glasses crowd are going to get it passed into law that farmers will have to pass 15.5 layers of tests, etc etc in order to use nitrogen.  The fellow who just retired from heading the Tilth Lab at Ames---- name escapes me------- wrote an article in DesMoines Register years ago about how the nitrate problem in Des Moines River would be solved practically overnight if the conventional farmers would start using cover crops.

Another case in point........ Iowa DNR was working their tails off to try in institute being able to lay penalties on hog confinements thru the use of "sniffers".........standing at the edge of the property and "sniffing"..........and if the odors were "too high"------- send dollars to Des Moines.  And, before someone says that the "sniffers" are the masks which are scientifically based.......the DNR agent that was telling me about it said that although it was not general knowledge, ie not made public, the DNR had in mind to allow the use of the natural nose......the snoz.  I kept waiting for him to laugh and tell me he was pulling my leg------but he was not.

Organics is a nothing problem--------- totally advertising----------- ranks right up there with the advertising which produces the idiotic argument of which is better, John Deere or CaseIH.........

But not paying attention to what the DNR and the local politicians are doing is a catastrophe waiting to happen.