viability of organic farming

Can organic cropping systems be as productive as conventional systems? The answer is an unqualified, "Yes" for alfalfa or wheat and a qualified "Yes most of the time" for corn and soybeans according to research reported by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and agricultural consulting firm AGSTAT in the March-April 2008 issue of Agronomy Journal.

Although researchers found that diverse, low-input/organic cropping systems were as productive as conventional systems most of the time, there is a need for further research

The 27 words above define the dilemma facing what is commonly termed – organic farming – as the rules, regulations, science, protocols and market economies world wide have been deluded by multinational corporate agri-business in consort with international financial institutions and political leaders onto the treadmill of genetically modified seeds, with terminator gene, copious use of commercial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, thereby depleting the soil initially provided by “mother nature.”

At the end of the day, the question remains, will “we” – that’s you and me - choose to DEMAND that the currently promulgated rules, regulations, purchased science produced by academia owned by corporate interests be subjected to thorough on-going oversight by US – that’s you and me - enabling US to objectively determine the long term viability of “organic farming” to produce the food necessary to adequate feed all the peoples of the world…?

Or is our collective American attraction to the un$u$tainable reward$ of our vaunted “conventional” forms of agriculture reflective of a greed too rampant to permit $uch an endeavor…?