What it Takes to Go Organic

"The 7th Annual Iowa State University (ISU) Organic Conference is going on today in Ames. About 320 folks are in attendance, many of them ag producers looking into what it takes to go organic.

Associate agronomy professor Dr. Kathleen Delate organized the conference for ISU. She told Brownfield organic corn and soybeans are currently fetching $10 and $17 dollars a bushel, respectively. And she said there's no problem with organic penetration of the U.S. food system.

"Actually, that's been a breeze," Delate said. "There is much more demand for organic products than there is supply, and that's another push, is working with the Iowa Organic Association here to get more people to transition to fill that demand so we won't have to go to places like China to meet our demand for organic soybeans, for example."

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