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Demand from students, farmers and schools grows for farm to school programs

March 12, 2010 // 0 Comments

Press Release: March 9, 2010; Contact: Ben Lilliston, (612) 870-3416, ben@iatp.org Farm to school efforts double in Minnesota: Demand from students, farmers and schools grows [...]

USDA Economic Research Service Feed Grains Database

March 9, 2010 // 0 Comments

The Database is available at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FeedGrains/ This database contains statistics on four feed grains (corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats), foreign [...]

The Duality of Vilsack: Trade, Climate Issues, and Crop Insurance

March 8, 2010 // 0 Comments

Interesting article from Keith Good’s blog FarmPolicy.com Sec. Vilsack- USDA Perceptions DTN editor-in-chief Urban C. Lehner noted on Friday that, “Our agriculture [...]

Community Food Enterprise: Examining the Role of CFEs in Local Economic Development

March 8, 2010 // 0 Comments

From The Wallace Center at Winrock International MISSED THE JANUARY EVENT? WATCH IT ONLINE! This past January, the Wallace Center at Winrock International and the Business [...]

Washington Post Article on Drake Forum for New Farmers

March 7, 2010 // 0 Comments

By Jane Black “The number of farms in America has begun to grow again, according to the most recent agricultural census. New small farms helped the overall number rise [...]

Federal Court May Halt Genetically Modified Sugar Beets Today

March 5, 2010 // 0 Comments

From Daily Kos: March 5th 2010. “Currently, about half of the America’s sugar supply comes from genetically modified sugar beets, which have been engineered to be [...]

Helping North Coast vets find farm jobs, and the new Farmer-Veteran Coalition

March 5, 2010 // 0 Comments

This article is about the local crop (wine) but the newish startup Farmer-Veteran Coalition <farmvetco.org> is building a nationwide service for connecting Iraq/Afghan [...]

BIO-CHAR and the New Environmental Underground

March 4, 2010 // 4 Comments

BY WAYNE ROBERTS After the failure of world leaders to produce a climate protection plan in Copenhagen, burnt offerings and negative thinking can keep us positive. The burnt [...]

Article: California FarmLink Nurtures Next Generation of Farmers

March 2, 2010 // 0 Comments

By Donna Jones; Posted: 03/01/2010 07:21:09 PM PST on MercuryNews.com Article Excerpt: “…At a time when farmers 65 and older are the fastest growing demographic in [...]

USDA Launches New Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Farmers Program

March 2, 2010 // 0 Comments

USDA Press Release No. 0091.10 Contact: Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 USDA LAUNCHES TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS PROGRAM WASHINGTON, March 1, [...]