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Moratorium on Hydroponic Organic Certification

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Ivo van Reij
10 years ago

Soil is the basis in organic farming.

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Michiel Groenewegen
10 years ago

Growing on substrate is Never Organic!!

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Jan van den Broek
10 years ago

There is no eco-system without soil

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Jorrit Jonkers
10 years ago

Organic = soil

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Tonnie Vink
10 years ago

The only way to grow organic food is growing in the soil

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Tonnie Vink
10 years ago

The only way to grow organic food is growing in the soil

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Jonathan Corcoran
10 years ago

The Organic Food Production Act of 1990 (as amended in 2005) reads: SEC.2114 (7 U.S.C. 6513): ORGANIC PLAN: Crop Production Farm Plan: "1) SOIL FERTILITY: An organic plan shall contain provisions designed to foster soil fertility, primarily through the management of the organic content of the soil through proper tillage, crop rotation and manuring" HOW CAN THERE BE ANY QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER SOIL IS FUNDAMENTAL TO THE ORGANIC PLAN? SHAME ON THE NOP!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Organic crops must be grown in the soil.

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Ben Noordermeer
10 years ago

I totally agree! Growing in the soil is the only way to get organic food.

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leo Verbeek
10 years ago

Organic food wil be grown in the soil

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Jac Verbeek
10 years ago

Growing in the soil is the only way to get organic food

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Krist Hamerlinck
10 years ago

A plant on hydroponics is like a patient in the hospital. Keeping alive with a baxter but not really healthy. you can feed the plants with nutrients but real organic growing is much more than nutrients.

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Klaus Sogard
10 years ago

Organic growing is all about the soil.

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B J van Bloois
10 years ago

Soil grown crops have more nutrients and great taste!

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DARLA WROBLSKI
10 years ago

Hydroponics uses synthetics, synthetic fertilizers, and plastics (petroleum based products) etc., involved in the processes of their production and that is not the natural God given Organic way ! NOT what I would consider Organics! Organic first and foremost begins with the ORGANIC SOIL!!! They need their OWN certification as Hydroponics/Aquaponics and NOT ORGANIC!

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Miriam van Bree
10 years ago

In the Netherlands, we do have organic production in the soil. that's what we want!

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Pat Stap
10 years ago

This is a good cause.

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Amelia Weeks
10 years ago

Organic involes SOIL!

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Erin Buckley
10 years ago

We need to take care of our soil and invest in this infrastructure