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In reply to the discussion: Why Organic Can't Fulfill Our Food Supply Ideals [View all]BronxBoy
(2,286 posts)There are some formidable obstacles to introducing sustainable practices in say South Georgia or the High Texas Plains. And those of us in the sustainable ag movement who don't acknowledge that are not being honest. Not saying solutions can't be developed but in some places, we aren't even close to being able to compete with conventional ag. It is what is is.
Having said that, this guy also doesn't seem to understand a lot about organic agriculture either. This statement just floored me : "For example, drip irrigation systems are very efficient ways to deliver fertilizers but cannot be used for most forms of organic fertilizers."
Not sure where he's getting his facts but just about every sustainable and organic farmer I know uses drip irrigation including myself. And in many areas, these farmers were the pioneers in using these practices. I'd be interested in hearing what fertilizers can't be used in drip injector systems if you are an organic farmer because I haven't heard of any. While I have no hard empirical data on the rate of adoption of NRCS cost shared micro-irrigation systems across the nation, I'd bet these systems were being gobbled up by sustainable farmers at a rate equal to or even surpassing that of conventional farmers
So just as sustainable ag has to face up to some realities so do some folks in the conventional ag world.