RE: Startling statistic

**"Jeff Ball" j*@starband.net**

I asked and he confirmed.  Only 2% of the pesticides sold to consumers in
this country is organic.  That statistic is true for the industry and for
his company on a national basis.  In the 50 or so garden centers I have
visited in the past year, it is my observation that something less than 10%
of the products on the shelf are organic.  The organic products are there in
the early season, but because they are not big sellers, the garden centers
tend not to reorder them, so that by June it is hard to find Bt or Neem or
Light hort oil.
Sorry to bring the bad news, but I believe the statistic.
Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[g*@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Nan Sterman
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:50 AM
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Subject: Re: [GWL] Startling statistic

>Last week I spent some time at a distributor's sales show with an old
friend
>who is the national sales manager for one of the larger pesticide
>manufacturers. He was showing me some of the new products his company was
>announcing for next year. As an aside he mentioned that only 2% of all the
>pesticide sales in the country to consumers are organic products.  I was
>stunned.  I don't know what I thought, but it sure wasn't only 2%.  Two
>percent is such a small portion of the total market as to be irrelevent, an
>idea I find very disappointing having been a proponent of organic gardening
>for over 20 years.  I have to conclude that there is no significant organic
>movement among gardeners in this country, and I don't like that idea.  Does
>anyone agree?

Not from over on this side of the country.  Are you sure he was
talking about residential consumers, not commercial consumers or
agricultural consumers?
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