Organic Farms Were Sold Synthetic Fertilizer

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - 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.

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Organic Farms Were Sold Synthetic Fertilizer

But a state investigation caught the Salinas, Calif.-area company spiking its product with ammonium sulfate, a synthetic fertilizer banned from organic farms.

As a result, some of Califor...

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