{"id":408,"date":"2010-07-11T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/cultivating-organic-peanuts.html"},"modified":"2010-07-11T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T22:00:38","slug":"cultivating-organic-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/cultivating-organic-peanuts.html","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating Organic Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeann Drabenstott Culbreath found this YouTube version of a Georgia Farm Monitor<br \/>\nreport on an Organic Peanut Field Day:<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WyhdftIoifw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WyhdftIoifw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nNote the cultivator. The host had to explain what it was and show it<br \/>\nseveral times so people would understand it.<br \/>\nYes, that&#8217;s how farmers used to control weeds before pesticide<br \/>\nvendor propaganda convinced people of things like &#8220;don&#8217;t throw dirt<br \/>\non peanuts.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe cultivator throws dirt on weeds next to the peanuts, thus<br \/>\nsuppressing the weeds and releasing the peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>\nGretchen remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOrganic growing isn&#8217;t a specialty market, it&#8217;s a matter of safety. Chemicals sprayed on peanuts, soy beans, cotton and corn are TOXIC. Good management and kindness to the earth can grow crops in a sustainable way. Just say no to chemical spraying.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peanut growers may not like manual labor, but<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re having to resort to that anyway, because their pesticides<br \/>\nhave produced<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/02\/mutant-pigweed-vs-glysophate-resistant-corn-soybeans-and-cotton.html\"><br \/>\nthe mutant pigweed, which pesticides don&#8217;t kill.<\/a><br \/>\nSpraying more and different herbicides doesn&#8217;t do it, either.<br \/>\nThe only way is physical removal of the pigweed.<br \/>\nAnd a cultivator can do that without manual labor<br \/>\n(the report mentions that).<br \/>\nOh yeah: and you don&#8217;t have to pay for pesticides to apply with<br \/>\na cultivator.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, it&#8217;s time to stop poisoning our air, water, plants, animals, and people<br \/>\nand move away from petrochemical pesticides.<br \/>\nOrganic is the way to go, and we know how to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeann Drabenstott Culbreath found this YouTube version of a Georgia Farm Monitor report on an Organic Peanut Field Day: Note the cultivator. The host had to explain what it was and show it several times so people would understand it. Yes, that&#8217;s how farmers used to control weeds before pesticide vendor propaganda convinced people of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[1262,1294,23,839,5,15,173,571,620,376,1295,1293],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","tag-cultivator","tag-georgia-farm-monitor","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-herbicides","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-monsanto","tag-organic","tag-peanut","tag-pesticides","tag-pigweed","tag-rick-treptow","tag-whole-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}