Job: Membership/Communications Coordinator, New England Farmers Union
Title: Membership/Communications Coordinator, New England Farmers Union Type: 30 hours/week Location: Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts (staff work primarily from home) [...]
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FDIC Chair Warns of Possible Farmland Price Bubble
Sheila Bair says U.S. farmland prices could be the next financial market bubble at risk. By John Hawkins (FarmWeekNow.com) EXCERPT: U.S. farmland could be the next asset [...]
USDA/DOJ Agriculture Antitrust Workshops: What Outcomes?
The Ag Hearings Are Over — Is That All There Is? (By Regina Weiss – Huffington Post) EXCERPT: There was excitement in the sustainable food community and [...]
Article on Challenges for Grass-Fed Beef Producers
When Demand is Not Enough, Challenges are Steep for American Grass-Fed Producers By Ulla Kjarval, Food and Tech Connect EXCERPT: Grass-fed beef has become a household name, [...]
Is Local Enough? Some Arguments for Regional Food Systems
By Kate Clancy and Kathryn Ruhf, From Choices Online EXCERPT: The focus on local food systems has been quite strong over the last decade, and the phenomenon has appropriately [...]
Organic Growers School Spring Conference, North Carolina
Registration for the Organic Growers School Spring Conference March 5 & 6 in Asheville, NC is now open. Visit www.organicgrowersschool.org to sign up. This event, in [...]
Kevin Wolfe’s Christmas Farm Cartoon
TED Talk: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
Video OVERVIEW: The varieties of wheat, corn and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. Cary Fowler takes us inside a vast global seed [...]
USDA Issues 2011 Request for Funding Proposals (CCPI & AWEP)
On Tuesday, December 14, USDA published its FY 2011 Request for Proposals for the Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI) and the Agricultural Water [...]
Field Report: The Accidental Farmer (New York Times)
By Christine Muhlke EXCERPT: If you’re supposed to make lemonade when life hands you lemons, what do you do when your divorce, following on the heels of breast cancer and [...]
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