What are you really buying when you purchase organic promotional products?

When cotton, bamboo and hemp are grown organically the farmers are adhering to the following practices:

Organic farmers use crop rotations to make the soil more fertile. For example, a farmer might graze sheep on a field one year, making the soil more fertile and then plant wheat the next and so on.
They can't grow genetically modified crops and can only use - as a last resort - seven of the hundreds of pesticides available to farmers (the Soil Association, however, only allow four of these).
Parasite problems in farm animals are controlled through regularly moving the animals to fresh pasture and other preventative methods, rather than routinely dosing the animals with drugs.
Here are some of organic farming's main features:

• Organic farming severely restricts the use of artificial chemical fertilizers and pesticides
• Instead, organic farmers rely on developing a healthy, fertile soil and growing a mixture of crops
• Animals are reared without the routine use of drugs, antibiotics and wormers common in intensive livestock farming

In our industry buying organic really comes into play when purchasing  promotional t-shirts , embroidered hats , logo bags , screenprinted washcloths , imprinted bath towels , and logo imprinted polos . There are new items coming into our industry everyday. The biggest problem has been supply. Manufacturers of clothes and accessories have to contract with the farmers for the cotton and other organic crops they grow. It is easier to predict the retail market  because we can wipe out somebody’s inventory with the purchase of 20,000 t shirts. Availability has been a problem the eco- conscious buyers have had to contend with in the past. Hopefully, we will have more inventory and new products to sell this year. Just remember each time you sell an organic t-shirt you keep a third of a pound of pesticides from entering the soil and at 20,000 t’s at a time, that really adds up!

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