More like "No Organic".

The latest USDA figures (see Table 3) for certified organic acreage, from 2005, report 130,000 acres planted.

Hard telling what the acreage will be in 2007, but let's assume, rather wildly given the trend line, that organic corn has doubled in just two years, to 260,000 acres.

If USDA's March 30 planting intentions estimate comes to pass and we see an ethanol-driven 90,500,000 acres of corn in the ground this spring (12 million acres more than 2006), that would mean less than three-tenths of one percent of US corn production is organic.

I'm betting organic's share of corn is even lower than that. Then again, organic comprises only 0.5 percent of the roughly 800 million acres used to produce crops and livestock in this country. Organic needs to grow in the right way--and here's some encouraging news on that point from ChewsWise.

"Organic," Dr. Phil Landrigan once remarked, "is private school for food." It's great if you find it; great if you can afford it. But for all its cultural salience, in the grand scheme of U.S. agriculture's impacts on environment and public health, organic farming at its current scale is still making a trivial contribution after all these years. It most certainly does need to grow--a lot--to begin making a difference on the scale of landscapes and populations.

EWG's ambition for the 2007 farm bill is to kick it up a notch. I talked about this (starting about minute 50) at the recent event at Berkeley hosted by Michael Pollan.