More than 100 groups and businesses have jointly signed a letter to USDA Secretary Mike Johanns asking him to intervene on the organic pasture issue. Those signing the letter represent a range of organic businesses and food cooperatives as well as farm, consumer, animal rights, social justice and environmental organizations. Another 50 individual signers, mostly… Read more »
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Healthy Local Food Brought to Your Workplace?
Cornucopia’s Take: As consumers become more aware of what is in their food, farmers are stepping up to meet the demand for local produce. Farm to workplace: CSAs get hyper local Bangor Daily News by Kathleen Pierce, BDN Staff Source: Suzie’s Farm PORTLAND, Maine — A truck pulls up to Maine Medical Center, and stethoscope-draped employees… Read more »
Food Prices Soar in America
Higher food prices, led by milk, are hitting consumers where it hurts – in the stomach. CNNMoney.com By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Food prices are climbing and Americans are seeing it on their grocery store shelves. The price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose 4.7 percent since the beginning of… Read more »
Organic Farming May Grow 10-Fold in 5 Years
The Economic Times New Delhi — Area under organic farming in India is likely to grow over ten-fold to one crore hectres in the next five years on buoyant domestic market and increased farmers’ interest to ensure sustained yield at lower costs. “Since the beginning of organic farming almost ten years back, acreage in India… Read more »
Organic Food Group Pushes for Better Labeling
Bradenton Herald By BRIAN NEILL – [email protected] Mitch Blumenthal thinks more needs to be done to ensure that organic foods are properly handled and labeled. That’s why the owner of Global Organics, an organic foods wholesaler in Sarasota, supports a letter sent to President Barack Obama and the U.S. Department of Agriculture by a nonprofit… Read more »
Heartbreak and Hope
The diagnostic story of California Cloverleaf Farms Dairy By Rachel Zegerius California Cloverleaf Farms is the latest casualty in organic dairy. Crushed by the onslaught of industrialized producers, Ward and Rosie Burroughs, with son Zeb and daughter-in-law Meridith, recently closed the doors on their 550-cow operation in the San Joaquin Valley. The loss of such… Read more »
Support Farmers Transitioning to Organic!
The Opportunities in Organic Act of 2023, legislation introduced in the House and the Senate, would provide desperately needed financial and technical assistance for farmers transitioning to organic production. With the 2023 Farm Bill focusing the nation’s attention on how we grow our food, the time to stand up for organic is now. Tell your… Read more »
5 Reasons Why Authentic Organic Earns its Price
The Real Cost of Food Authentic organic food is more expensive because the price reflects the enormous task of sustainable food production and the myriad costs of producing high-quality food grown in well-tended soil. Authentic organic relies on a mindset that treats the land, water, and air as shared resources and the farm as an… Read more »
Which Chicken Breeds Are Right for You?
Rodale Wellness by Lissa Lucas & Traci Torres of My Pet Chicken Learn how to read the breeds so you can build your best backyard flock. Source: Marilyn Brinker You’re the Casting Director of Your Flock Let’s take a look at how chicken breeds are described in catalogs–and how to decode what those descriptors mean. We’ll… Read more »
Food Safety Bill Update — Senate Debate Underway
Steve Gilman NOFA Policy Coordinator In the Senate it’s well understood that the only safe place for proposed legislation to be for a Floor vote is in the “Manager’s Package”. Because there’s already lengthy and considerable bipartisan negotiation and buy-in at the committee level — the resulting Manager’s Package Bill is good to go for… Read more »
