Latest News: Senate Passes Food Safety Bill (Again)
From the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) In an unexpected late-night move, the Senate passed the Food Safety Modernization Act – with the Tester-Hagan [...]
Policy
You Know about Peak Oil, but What About Peak Phosphorus?
A Rock and a Hard Place: Peak Phosphorus and the Threat to our Food Security This 23 page publication from the Soil Association is a well written and well researched (with [...]
USDA Announces Assistance for Farmers and Ranchers who suffer Losses Due to Natural Disasters
2009 Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program Application Period Begins on January 10, 2011 WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack [...]
Ethanol lobby poised for another win (Politico)
By Darren Goode EXCERPT: The ethanol industry — which is being attacked from everyone from tea party backers to Al Gore — nonetheless may be poised to win another victory [...]
New Group to Focus on Iowa’s Food and Farms
Press Release: IOWA–The Iowa Food Systems Council is an emerging non-profit organization whose mission is to develop and recommend policy, program and research [...]
Organic Food and Farming Event in Portland, Oregon
Get Schooled In Organicology! February 10-12, 2011 in Portland, Oregon! Registration and details: organicology.org. This dynamic event unites the organic food community to [...]
New House Agriculture Chair Wants Farm Bill Obama Will Sign
Rep. Lucas Spells Out Goals: Incoming House Ag Chairman Wants a Farm Bill President Obama Would Sign (DTN Progressive Farmer) by Chris Clayton EXCERPT: Incoming House [...]
First Annual Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Conference
This conference is part of START2FARM, which is funded through a USDA Beginning Farming and Ranching Development Program grant. It will be held on February 6th and 7th in [...]
Tool to Assist Beginning Farmers & Ranchers in Finding Land
USDA Introduces an Online Tool to Assist Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack [...]
Vilsack’s New Steps to Help Farmers Fight Climate Change
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces New Steps to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change CANCUN, Mexico, Dec. 9, 2010 – Calling it “one of the greatest threats [...]
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