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Organic Farms Unknowingly Used Chemical Fertilizer

 
For up to seven years, California Liquid Fertilizer sold what seemed to be an organic farmer's dream, brewed from fish and chicken feathers. The company's fertilizer was effective, inexpensive and approved by organic regulators. By 2006, it held as much as a third of the market in California. (link)

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