Bill Hecht, you pretty much sum up good on the farm practices. Just few nights ago, mind you I'm in Salt Lake City and was watching PBS on farming practices in New York of all places.. Some farms are no longer tilling the soil, moving toward "no-till" method, resulting in increased crops and better output. I abhor those farmers who use inorganic chemical fertilizers on crops because if they were actually dumped direct in water, the Feds would be all over them for polluting the water and rendering the water unsafe to even drink for long time. Most of those chemical fertilizers are made from petroleum as in raw imported black oil used to make gas for your cars. I wonder how the old time farmers felt about the loss of soil and food treated with chemicals you don't want to know about. They practiced organic way before some farmers got greedy. Is it any wonder there are huge movements toward organic foods being sold in farmers markets now? David Samuelsen