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You got me thinking now.  My food as a child was pretty much organically produced.  We did not use commercial fertilizer or pesticide, merely crop rotation.  We were probably some of the last people to use commercial fertilizer and pesticides.  Pesticide choices were limited when I was a child and farmers weren't taught yet how to use them where I was raised.

We did start using commercial fertilizer, remember the 80 lb bags?  That kept child labor at bay because we couldn't lift them until we were older.  I remember using the first 2,4-D on the farm, not sure what year.  I remember sucker control coming to the tobacco patch and di ethyl stilbesterol to the feedlot.  That's about it.

If you follow the population curve, it started up before what I would call inorganic or non organic food production started.

http://hymark.blogspot.com/2009/02/hybridization-of-corn.html

Ed