Organic farm draws crowd to Sutherland
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7/30/2019
SUTHERLAND—The high attendance of a field day on Paul and Karen Mugge’s farm west of Sutherland showed that interest in organic farming is booming.
The farm actually hosted two Practical Farmers of Iowa field days — one in the morning and another in the afternoon — on Wednesday, July 17. It was expected that two dozen people would attend the morning session and 50 in the afternoon, but those numbers nearly doubled.
“There’s a lot of interest in transitioning to organic production right now, mainly because the commodity prices for conventional crops are not very good,” Paul Mugge said.
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