Here’s an interesting tributary spawned by the Great Green Marketing Flood of 2008 … An official at one of the organic media companies with which we associate told my colleague and friend Ed Tavender that her commercial sales are “through the roof” and that she is about two months behind in filling orders.
OK, that’s not the tributary.
When Ed asked her what she attributed the growth to, she said that it was because traditional fertilizers and pesticides are petroleum-based. With the price of oil consistently increasing, the commercial growers are looking for more cost-efficient alternatives.
As Ed noted, how’s that for a 180-degree turn? The time was when organic products were considered premium with a high price point. Now, are they becoming bargains? Do you think the product development departments at the various conventional growing media companies won’t be busy in the very near future?
Do you think Lee Raymond is managing to make ends meet on the $400 million retirement package he received after leaving ExxonMobil a couple of years ago?
Some of those questions are rhetorical.
-- Yale
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