New Report: Climate Change will Cost Farmers Far More than a Climate Bill
The Environmental Working Group has just released a report which finds that the cost of climate change will be far greater for farmers than that of a Climate Bill. An [...]
Statistics and Trends
I often post articles and opinion pieces that discuss new trends in agriculture and farming. You will usually find excepts with links to the articles.
USDA Launches National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Recent appointments of individuals with close connections to agricultural giant Monsanto to two major posts at the USDA have caused concern among many sustainable agriculture [...]
Latest Issue of ‘Foodlinks America’ – A Free Bi-Weekly Newsletter About Agriculture, Food, Nutrition, and Hunger
Foodlinks America – September 25, 2009 In this issue: ● Ag Appropriations Poised to Pass ● Poverty Took a Big Leap in 2008 ● New Survey Finds Food Banks Stretched to [...]
Sharing your extra produce with those in need
Think about this: “An estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States. It doesn’t have to [...]
Website with Hundreds of Organic Links
An excellent website which compiles links to organic farming resources, organizations, opportunities, publications, websites, and more, check out All Organic links at: [...]
Sacred Seed? Not Anymore!
For thousands of years seed has been considered ‘sacred’. Not so any longer. For an excellent picture and video of consolidation in the seed industry see Phil [...]
Blight and Weather = Bad Year for Tomatoes
There is a fairly good article about the the potato/tomato blight sweeping the Northeastern U.S. in last Sunday’s New York Times. I was just there, and the damage is [...]
New Report: Emerging Issues in US Organic Industry
From: https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib55/eib55_reportsummary.html Catherine Greene, Carolyn Dimitri, Biing-Hwan Lin, William McBride, Lydia Oberholtzer, and Travis [...]
Sustainable Agriculture Supporter Ann Wright Named New USDA Undersecretary
Ann Wright, who has worked with The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, and is a friend of small scale farmers has been named to a key post at the United States [...]
Article About Washington State Beginning Farmer Programs
Original article at: https://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/05/05/helping-young-farmers Posted on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 State Programs Out to Help Young Farmers Two [...]
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