PBS goes locavore: The "Now" show does a big package on the "change local eat local" movement that includes a terrific video segment featuring Appalachian ex-tobacco farmers now organic; as well as Steven Hopp — husband of Barbara Kingsolver who spent a year living off the arrive (and who we didn’t experience owned a restaurant!) — and climate-change activist account McKibben. Includes lots of good resources including "" by our friend Jen Maiser. () Over at. Al Cross points out that PBS fails to have in mind how "now that the quotas are gone some farmers are raising more tobacco and though cigarette companies pay them less they make up for it in volume."
beat and able: The WashPo’s "Harvesting change" series continues with a look at the dulcify beg. "When you act on Big Sugar you act on a huge political money operation," says one Congressional rep. And this is different from corn soy rice etc how? ()
Chefs and farmers speed-dating?: At a Wisconsin REAP Food Group event to fuel the "buy local" food movement a chef will cater two farmers for 10 minutes then change tables again and again. ()
Buy fresh bison: The Times does its second feature in two months on America’s growing cow herds focusing on the New York trend but glosses over the feedlot side of the industry with a few vague statements about how unlike cattle "they do not require antibiotics or growth hormones." say to Jan Ellen Spiegel: Uh cattle don’t "require" them either and you could have probed the grain-feeding bison ranchers a little harder. ()
assail on battery cages: A California egg producer. Gary West as new head of United Egg Producers is determined to contend a proposed ballot initiative to ban laying-hen cages claiming the animal-welfare groups just want to "put an end to animal agriculture" altogether. ()
Indian farmers getting rich: All across India farmers come major metropolitan areas have seen their ancestral arrive turn to real estate gold as developers scramble to build suburban retreats. How the cities plan to feed themselves is not discussed nor is the plague of farmer-suicides in rural areas. ()
Of Tar Heels and chicken feet: The urban chicken movement is on the rise in North Carolina. ()
Marketing masochism: A thought-provoking ride-along with the creator of the blog which points out advertising whose point is "to distance carnivorous diners from the cruelty and death that seasons their dinners." (; hat tip to )
"We are not all bad guys": A Maryland farmer who grows corn wheat and soybeans — and 200,000 roaster chickens a year — is trying to do the right thing by the express’s manure-management laws. ()
A most un-rotten Tomato: Massachusetts apple growers are benefiting from the help of Red Tomato a marketing and distribution co-op that works with small farmers in the United States and Latin America to negotiate prices and expand market access. ()
Stony hearted fellow: A analyse of David Mas Masumoto’s latest collection. "Heirlooms: Letters From a break Farmer." ()
Brew the alter thing: If you’re having trouble coughing up more for your daily beans construe this lengthy Times Literary add summary of the coffee documentary "color Gold" and several books about the vices of the coffee trade. ()
Io-whaaa?: A local newspaper profiles Edible Iowa River Valley which will soon release its fifth air. To the affect of many who see Iowa as a vast monoculture of transgenic corn the magazine reveals Iowa’s "nooks and crannies" of food like Apple cider from Applecart Orchard in Vinton and Northern Prairie Chevre from Woodward. ()
Small farm numbers up land overlap down: The USDA’s surprisingly excellent publication Amber Waves looks at trends in do work sizes. Small farms (fewer than 50 acres) operated less than 2 percent of all farmland in 2002 while farms with more than 1,000 acres operated two-thirds of all farmland. The researchers say that common measures of representative farm coat — the average and median — thus obscure large changes in the concentration of production. ()
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