"Organic not healthier" rebuttal

Being in the lawn industry my competitors have organic lawncare programs using compost, compost teas and organic weed killers...the lawns look like crap and are not healthy enough to prevent weeds on their own, it's expensive and meant to cater to the people who believe organic is better and safer...it's great for the person selling it because he doesn't even have to keep the lawn free of weeds.

Just because its organic doesn't mean its better, healthier or safer. And like haypoint said, rarely can manure even come close to the NPK of a pelletized man made fertilizer.

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The thing is, farmers today are growing lush crops. Lush crops do not grow on unhealthy land. Poor crops grow on unhealthy land. Soil mining stopped happening about a generation ago, when optimizing soil fertility for the best plant response became common practice. This is not the 1950's anymore, the soil is improving, after being depleted by "traditional", non chemical farming methods. Farmers were removing more than they put in. Now, we are putting back more than we remove, and this rebuilds organic matter, hence higher yields, and more fertile, healthy soil.

After almost two decades of no tillage and optimal ferrtility on my farm, my field soil is hard to differentiate from the treeline/fenceline soil. It is being repaired from the mass tillage in the previous 70 years. The years it was farmed "organically" in other words. Those were the years of soil degredation through nutrient mining, soil erosion, organic matter burning, and mass tillage which beat the soil to a powdery pulp.

People have such skewed ideas about modern industrial farming. As haypoint says, it borders on insult. Never before has farming been kinder to the land. Never before was soil being rebuilt as it is today. We should be happy farmers have been able to optimize this through importing nutrients economically.