Michael Sauers

May 12, 2025

As I travel the countryside, I am noticing farmers, highway departments, lawn care companies and just regular folks applying fungicides, insecticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers everywhere. Have they lost their minds? Are they stupid? Maybe they just don’t care. You be the judge. Decades of information should have seeped into their brains simply through osmosis.

This post is about organic farming. It is so important because its impacts are widespread. Consider the following:

There is significant consumer demand. People want organic, safe, nutritious and ethically produced food.

Organic practices like composting, cover cropping and crop rotation improve soil. Healthy soils store more carbon helping to mitigate climate change.

Avoiding synthetic fertilizers and pesticides reduces the risk of water pollution and ecosystem disruption.

Organic farms tend to support a higher diversity of plant, insect and animal species.

Organic farming practices enhance the resilience of agriculture systems to climate change, weather extremes, soil depletion, and water conservation.

Organic farming increases economic opportunities for farmers and local economies

Technological advances, if handled properly, can help with precision agriculture, analytics, decision/management and crop yields.

The benefits of organic agriculture are being recognized across a broad spectrum of society including government. They will lead with policy from the rear.

While there are challenges to organic farming, growing markets will win the day. Say goodbye to chemical farming and its negative impacts.