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Several letters have expressed the idea that as demand for organic foodstuffs increases, prices will go down. This seems to be against the conventional wisdom, but is probably true as long as additional, especially larger, suppliers are drawn into that market.
In most areas of organic produce, as I understand, supplies are already dominated by a few extremely large California corporations. I would expect that prices here might even increase with additional demand.
In some areas like milk, the entry of the large Horizon dairy in organic milk production resulted in a significantly cheaper product. However, smaller, established organic dairies responded by calling for alteration of organic standards to some form that Horizon could not meet, and thus keep the prices at least as high as the present. I think that as of now this issue remains unresolved.
So I'm not real sure that these lower prices will materialize.......I think that there are many factors involved.
