DTN Report: Farmers Confident Now; A Little Less So in Future
Excerpt: “U.S. farmers are more optimistic about their economic prospects than they were last spring, according to the second reading of the DTN/Progressive Farmer [...]
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Weekly Sustainable Agriculture Policy Roundup
From the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) TAKE ACTION Last Opportunity for a Better School Lunch: Time is running out for Congress to re-authorize the Child [...]
USDA Announces Technology Grants for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
USDA Press Release 0477.10 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced technology grants totaling nearly $14 million to 13 states to [...]
Recommended Articles: Food Safety Bill; Urban Farming; Nutrient Shortage; Farm Financing
Sen. Coburn Threatens to Hold Food Safety Bill (Food Safety News) by Helena Bottemiller Excerpt: ”Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) says he will hold up the pending food safety bill [...]
Conservation Reserve Program Sign-Up Benefits Producers, Protects Sensitive Habitat
USDA Press Release No. 0464.10 Contact: Isabel Benemelis; (202) 720-7809, isabel.benemelis@wdc.usda.gov WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today [...]
Beginning Farmers Administrator Taylor Reid Co-Authors new Paper on Biofuels
Green dreams or pipe dreams?: Media framing of the U.S. biofuels movement A paper by Wynne Wright, Associate Professor in the Department Community, Agriculture, Recreation, [...]
USDA Announces Funds to Enhance the Competitiveness of Specialty Crops
USDA Press Release No. 0472.10 Contact: Jimmie Turner (202) 720-8998 DOVER, Del., Sept. 17, 2010 – Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced the award [...]
United Fresh Applauds as Merrigan Announces $55M in Specialty Crop Block Grants
For Immediate Release, September 17, 2010 Contact: Patrick Delaney pdelaney@unitedfresh.org; 202-303-3400 ext. 417 Grants Fund 827 Projects Nationwide WASHINGTON, D.C. – A [...]
At The Good Food Table: The First Growing Power National-International Urban & Small Farm Conference in Milwaukee
Guest Article: Part I of Alexis Bogdanova-Hanna’s article on our trip to The Growing Power Conference in Milwaukee: It’s barely Thursday, September 9th at 4:45 AM in [...]
Study Suggests Food Industry Has Sway on Safety
Reuters News via DTN/Progressive Farmer Excerpt: “The food industry is jeopardizing U.S. public health by withholding information from food safety investigators or [...]
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