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Michelle Obama Announces New Online Food Environment Atlas – A Comprehensive Map-Based Database of Food Facts

February 10, 2010 // 0 Comments

Michelle Obama today announced an online Food Environment Atlas. The searchable maps in this comprehensive database made possible by the USDA Economic Research Service [...]

NAIS May be Done, but USDA Continues to Pursue Tracability Options

February 9, 2010 // 0 Comments

USDA Press Release No. 0053.10 Contact: USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 USDA ANNOUNCES NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ANIMAL DISEASE TRACEABILITY WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, [...]

Upcoming Farming Events in Kansas City

February 6, 2010 // 2 Comments

Upcoming Events from the Kansas City Center For Urban Agriculture’s Excellent Bi-Monthly E-Newsletter: Urban Grown To view current and past issues of Urban Grown go to: [...]

Agriculture Futures Prices on Chicago Board of Trade Mixed on Thursday

February 5, 2010 // 0 Comments

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CP) CHICAGO — Agriculture futures were mixed Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for March delivery jumped 6.75 cents US to $4.7575 a [...]

Article, Update, and Action on Food Safety Legislation

February 1, 2010 // 0 Comments

Article: The Incredible Shrinking Local Market By Annette Higby, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. For more information on the Food Safety issue from NSAC Visit: [...]

Here Come GAP Standards! And We Still Don’t Know What they Will Mean For Small Farmers

February 1, 2010 // 4 Comments

The article containing the excerpts below appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of Growing for Market. It is available in it’s entirety online at: [...]

Grow Your Farm Program – For New And Beginning Farmers in Missouri

January 31, 2010 // 3 Comments

Ag Opportunities: Volume 21, Number 1, January 2010 (Available At: https://agebb.missouri.edu/mac/agopp/mac1.htm) Grow Your Farm Program is Growing As part of the three-year [...]

Guest Article: Collected Seed Farm – A Source for GMO Free Open Pollinated Organic Heirloom Vegetable Seeds

January 29, 2010 // 0 Comments

Collected Seed: GMO Free, Open Pollinated Organic Heirloom Vegetable Seeds So apparently these folks have disappeared. The link in the original post goes to a Chinese [...]

BusinessWeek Article: Entrepreneurs Keep the Local Food Movement Hot

January 22, 2010 // 1 Comment

Local food businesses play a much more critical role in economic development than commonly thought, a new report shows By John Tozzi Entrepreneurs are flocking to local food, [...]

2009 CROP YEAR IS ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS, USDA REPORTS

January 22, 2010 // 0 Comments

USDA NASS NEWS RELEASE Contact: Ellen Dougherty, (202) 690-8122; Lance Honig, (202) 720-2127 2009 CROP YEAR IS ONE FOR THE RECORD BOOKS, USDA REPORTS WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, [...]