On 09/14/2019 04:22 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
Farms were organic way back when. Why do you suppose most farmers
started using the chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides?

Earl Butz? Go big or get out? Fence to fence cultivation? Butz figured
hungry peasants are dangerous peasants so keeping the bread flowing to
the masses cheaply was needed. He just didn't foresee industrial farming
being so efficient.