Rich, Do you raise organic beans?
Best wishes,
Greg
Gunthorp's Pasture-ized Pork
LaGrange, Indiana
visit our farm at www.grassfarmer.com
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> From: Richard Mazour <rm14421@navix.net>
> To: Greg & Lei Gunthorp <hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com>
> Cc: Bob MacGregor <rdmacgregor@gov.pe.ca>; sanet
<sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Vinton Soybean prices
> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:28 PM
>
> So what are all these new organic farmers going to do with the HEL
soybean
> ground this year? Rich
>
> Greg & Lei Gunthorp wrote:
>
> > A lot of CRP ground is coming out of the ten year program. $20 beans
> > compared to less than $6 beans was too big of an incentive. CRP ground
> > that had no fertilizer or pesticides on it in the last three years is
> > eligible for organic production upon exiting the Conservation Reserve
> > Program. (That would be almost all of the CRP ground.) I know of a lot
of
> > CRP ground that is now in organic production.
> > Greg
> >
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> > > From: Bob MacGregor <rdmacgregor@gov.pe.ca>
> > > To: hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com
> > > Subject: Re: Vinton Soybean prices
> > > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 8:30 AM
> > >
> > > Greg,
> > > You lost me on that one. What is the special connection between CRP
and
> > organic grains/oilseeds markets?
> > > BOB
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At the time, I
promoted either requiring perennial cover -- preferably trees -- on CRP
lands or purchase of cultivation rights by the government. Hindsight is
always 20/20, I guess! If this land was too fragile to plow in 1985, it
is too fragile to plow now; as ever, shortsighted government policy puts us
back where we were a decade or more ago...
> If organic prices are down from oversupply, does this imply these lands
will be back in conventional ag. soon? After all, the best way to
stimulate more $$ from the feds not to grow crops is to start wholesale
plowing of these highly-erodable parcels -- and get the biggest net returns
expected from current markets (unless organic yields are turning out
competitive on these lands.....?).
> Damn, I hate to see all this happen!
> Thanks,
> BOB
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