Organic farming goes for scale in prairies, pushes back on skepticism

Travis Heide was raised on a conventional farm and used to take it personally when his wife, who grew up on an organic farm on Vancouver Island, talked about going pesticide and fertilizer-free. Now, the Saskatchewan-based farmer owns one of the biggest organic farms in Canada.
“Every time she talked about organic, it was like she was attacking the way I was raised.”
High prices for some organic crops helped push him to experiment with the practice in 2015 on farmland he secured thro