S1E5. Soft Markets: Organic Doesn’t Scale
Episode description
Conventional grain farms raise thousands of acres of crops and ship harvests to the elevator by the semitruck load. Can organic markets handle the harvest from a farm at scale? Agricultural commodity prices fluctuate up and down every few years. How can farmers hope to rely on the organic premium being there when they need it?
Separate the wheat from the chaff and myth from reality with this episode's guests:
- Will Glazik, organic farmer
- Aaron Butler, organic farmer
- Ben Bowell, Oregon Tilth/NRCS
- Ryan Koory, Mercaris
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