Cannot smile at the busy times of year :>)
> That is, if you were sent out to promote organic agriculture, what areas or types of > farms and farmers would YOU target?
Dairy farmers after the calving / mating period
> Are there organic farmers out there who were not always organic? What
> was it that led you to switch?
Stock health problems. We were putting certain fertilizers on the land
and then having to give preventative medicaments to the animals to
correct problems caused by the fertilizers. e.g. bloat, metabolic
problems associated with potassium ferts.
Regards
Ian Buckingham
Maungatawhiri
New Zealand
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