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BACK TO BASICS: ?The USDA established the National Organic Program and the term certified organic f?

By Glenn Reynolds

BACK TO BASICS: “The USDA established the National Organic Program and the term certified organic for crops in 1992 and for meat in 1999. But today, Tennessee has only 23 certified organic crop producers in the state and only one certified organic meat producer. . . . Many Tennessee farmers still aren’t interested in farming organically, says Wszelaki, either because they don’t agree with it philosophically, or they think it would be too labor-intensive and expensive to do.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).