THE POTATO DEBATE

RE: More on Potatoes:

Sanet Post, Marc Safley, September 13, 1996

The recent and ongoing potato discussion brings several questions to mind:

    1. Could the Irish potato farmers controlled the blight if they had rotated their crops with barley or oats or some other Gramineae?

    2. If organic agriculture grew out of a reaction to the increased use of agricultural chemicals in production systems, why can the description of "organic" be applied to any system that relies on non-synthetic inputs?

    3. Wasn't the Irish potato famine really an example of unsustainable organic agriculture?

    4. Wouldn't Bill Duesing make a great neighbor? I think so.

    Marc Safley