28 Jul Paying farmers to go organic, even before the crops come in – via Seattle Times
From the Seattle Times…
“Basically, we stopped because no one paid me,” said Naraghi, whose father started the family’s large nut orchards here in the Central Valley in the 1940s. “There just was no market premium for organic.”
Today, the problem is turned upside down: Companies can’t get enough organic ingredients to satisfy consumer desire for organic and nongenetically modified foods. The demand for those crops outstrips the supply, leaving farmers like Naraghi racing to convert their land to organic production, an arduous and expensive process.”