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| I actually think we may end up in a world with organic plus GMO farming but I digress...
As an entrepreneur I like Organic for a couple reasons
1. It's a large and hard problem, so there are opportunities for innovation and it is attractive for investors
2. Small but rapidly growing market based on consumer demand, good for investment
3. Advancements in cover crops/ weed control will feed back/overlap with conventional farming as well
4. Lends itself to higher margin farming on smaller scale, letting people who want to make a living farming who might not be able to otherwise.
I sort of suspect, especially when you look at companies like Marrone Bio Innovations and some of the stuff Monsanto is doing in the produce aisle, that 15 years from now the technology of organic will have moved on to where it is the new status quo. Not sure if that is good or bad. It probably will be better. Non GMO in particular, I know makes some of you more money, but that is being driven by consumer illiteracy of farming.
I will pose one thought experiment. If you could genetically engineer cover crops that would be much easier to mechanically kill, and integrated them into an organic system using no other chemicals etc, would that still be organic?
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Organic/non-gmo farming
