Natural Shoppers Are More And More Mainstream
A railcar sometimes carries thirty-5 hundred bushels, or about a hundred tons. When Heinecke began making grain deliveries at Goss, Constant normally gave him forty-eight hours to finish the duty. In that time, Heinecke would usually fill seven railcars. He told me that, within a yr, he had crammed about a hundred. On no less than one occasion, a farmer working with Constant treated a subject with herbicides and pesticides—however left the perimeter untouched. To a neighbor, or a hurried inspector, the sphere would look as scrappy and weed-infested as it should.
For two years, she worked in Q.A.I.’s head office, and she or he later became president of the Missouri Organic Association, a trade group for farmers. She now serves on the National Organic Standards Board, a high-profile committee whose members are appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. On that committee, tensions … Read More
