Money defeats organic farming in the end

From The Spectator:

Last week, a farmer pointed out to me that this will be the first year ever that more people will have switched back to conventional farming than will have gone organic. I do not know if he is statistically correct, but the trend is certainly there. The huge rise in the price of wheat makes it enticing once again to be a conventional arable farmer: your yield is double the organic one. Part of this rise results from the ecologically correct craze for biofuels, but more relates to the serious problem of feeding the world. Until recently, we were saved from a global food crisis by the technologically induced increase in yields. This has ceased, and will not resume without further technological change, such as GM. Not for the first time, the organic movement is exposed as a game for the rich. When there are hungry mouths, something else is needed.

This should annoy the hell out of the greenies. They have been on a roll in recent years, proclaiming that the world is going organic and the revolution is unstoppable.

Well, unstoppable until it runs into good old fashioned self interest.