The Truth about CHEMICAL FARMING - John W Robinson - July 1960

John W Robinson

Many say that insecticides and water-soluble chemical fertilizers are necessary in agriculture. Others claim both are harmful. What are the facts? This problem - directly or indirectly - affects us all. ORIGINALLY our land was so rich that it produced abundant crops every year. Farmers had no insect worries. Then production lagged and insects began to destroy crops. Why? Man soon used chemical fertilizers and insecticides but insects became worse. Plant diseases appeared and took their toll of our prosperity. What caused our first onslaughts of insects? What brought our crop diseases upon us! We know that insects and diseases were not just recently created, because "...the works were finished from the foundation of the world" (Heb. 4:3). Is Chemical Farming the Solution? Farmers and gardeners have generally assumed that chemicals have become SO necessary that they would be lost - that they could not live - without using them. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library