by Chas Bonner
Sustainability is a word seen increasingly in all literature, and it is becoming a real factor in agriculture. For the past 2 days, the Idaho Farm Expo was held in Caldwell, Idaho. Roger Martell and Chas Bonner visited the show for about 3 hours, and both were surprised (no, shocked) at the number of exhibitors in the sustainable supplement field. Out of approximately 40 exhibit booths, fully 7 were biological, pro-biotic, organic, natural, and/or environmental. Not one booth was an exhibitor of simple N-P-K type products.
Although we are not extolling or advising that this is the way agriculture should go, we can readily see the movement in that direction. Not only are petro-chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides becoming very expensive and likely to remain so, they are also suspect in many agricultural problems like water run-off, nitrous oxides in the air, and trace elements in animals. In short, we advise awareness and ability to move quickly.
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