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December 4, 2009
Iowa County providing incentives for organic production -- goal is all organic
Using tax breaks and other incentives, Woodbury County, Iowa is encouraging organic farming. From the New York Times (the original source is Greenwire):
SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- In the midst of sprawling corn and soybean fields, industrial animal-processing plants and ethanol refineries, Woodbury County is . . . trying to go whole-hog into organic agriculture.
"This is a totally new direction for us," said Debi Durham, president and CEO of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce. . . . "Within the next 10 years, we will be known as the organic capital -- of the world."
Such a prediction is almost mind-boggling, considering that the county had not one registered acre of organic farmland in the 2007 U.S. Department of Agriculture census -- and this in a county with a total 450,000 acres of farmland.
December 4, 2009 in Farming, Food culture, Organics | Permalink
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