Organic markets attempting to stabalize for poultry and dairy

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The Des Moines Register, published this a couple days ago. $25 soybeans and $10 corn is great for the grain producers, but livestock producers are hurting. The price has gone up too far, too fast and now some of the co-ops are trying to lock in prices with long-term contracts…

A leading organic grain trader, Lynn Clarkson, said organic grain farmers have long resisted contracting their crops, feeling they can make more money on the open market, and he’s skeptical that will change. Instead, Clarkson, president of Clarkson Grain Co. of Cerro Gordo, Ill., said more outside investors will move into the industry, buy organic grain farms and make long-term supply contracts with livestock producers.

And with record high conventional prices, the rush to transition to organic has slowed.

Read the whole thing. There’s a lively discussion by farmers at the end of the article. Typical criticism from conventional farmers — “I can only speak from what I have seen of organic farming in my area and most of it is ugly.” Someone calling themselves “oneree” writes, “I just think those acres of weeds called organic farms are an eye sore and really don’t help much at all.”

That’s what it’s come to. Organic farming is not pretty enough.

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