Farmers tapping into the growing demand for organic food

HURON COUNTY, Ohio — As we are all hoping to eat healthier, there is a rising desire for natural and organic products on the table.

In Huron County, Dalton Farms has begun planting organic crops on fifty percent its 2000 acres of land. The farm grows soybeans and corn the common way, with professional fertilizer and weed command but on the other fields, the Daltons only use manure with no weed handle at all.

The produce isn’t as good, but there’s legitimate demand from customers. The organic and natural beans and corn are then sold to markets to feed animals like steers and hogs for meals manufacturing.

Edward Dalton, a seventh-generation farmer, has been farming some natural and organic crops the very last 5 several years.

“Many folks want things grown organically and we figure as farmers, it’s our job to increase what people want. Which is what led us to it,” Dalton claimed. “The U.S. imports far more than fifty percent the grain utilised in this region and that instructed us there’s a sector for it. Men and women want it.”

Dalton Farms also commonly has all over 400 head of cattle on the farm. Edward’s spouse, Rebecca, operates their modest place retail store referred to as the Meat Barn.

“It’s coming from our farm instantly to the butcher, which is a community butcher, so you are also supporting that company,” Rebecca said. “It’s currently being cut, processed and froze promptly and introduced back again to the farm and sold to the buyer. We are stocking out cabinets weekly, so meat is as refreshing as you’re gonna get.”

The Meat Barn is open two days a week, Wednesday from 2 – 6 p.m. and Sunday from midday – 3 p.m, and sells a assortment of regional make in addition to meat.

The farm’s positioned at 5073 Butler Rd. in Wakeman, Ohio, and much more info is accessible on its site at this website link.