Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
It goes back to John Deere.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
So there's a lot of things that we think about, but definitely something that we hope someday will happen.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
I think it's twofold.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
I think it could be pricing, but it could also be manure management.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
I mean, you've got to be around a manure source, right?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
Until we find we're pretty excited about the fact that there are some
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
companies right now looking at manure, chicken manure especially, and trying to create a pellet that can go through a strip tiller.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
If we can figure that out for the organic farmer, that's going to be good.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
We can truck this thing, we can bag it, it'll just be lower cost.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
But for now, it's definitely around a manure source.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
But remember, if you think about, there's such room for the conventional farmer to move over to organics because
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
we're importing more than half of what we're using, right?
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
So there's room for us not to import as much, use U.S.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
organically grown as a model for conventional farmers to switch over.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
And we're working on some data right now that on 1,500-acre conventional farms, 2,500, 3,500-acre farms, if they just did one-third of their farming operation and moved it to organic farming,
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
after the second year, you would never be on... Well, my goal is to help farmers transition during $5 corn and $5.25 corn because then there's no pain points.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
But...
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
No matter what, after those two years, you literally will never lose money again if you go a third of your crop into organic.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
Now, you'd say, well, if everybody does it, then we've got a problem with pricing.
Farm4Profit Podcast
Could It Now Be Easier for Organic Crops to Contribute to Your Profitability?
It could be, but I'm just saying, you know, there's always so many that want to take on the old 70s farming, which is we clean manure lots, right?