Many of those officials talking about the real dairy crisis in Pennsylvania and other U.S. states tend to cite “reduced demand” and talk about low milk prices in general. It’s true that there’s a milk surplus – and it is a problem that a government board sets milk prices – but that’s not nearly all […]
Continue ReadingBig Ag and strong communities of small town America – Truth or Fiction? By GTKYF Foundation Inc volunteer staff writer. For a lot of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania residents, it’s already out of sight, out of mind – but just a few weeks ago, crews were taking a wrecking ball to the iconic old Wilbur […]
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Continue ReadingConfined Cows? Aurora Investigated in 2017 It looks nice – Aurora Dairy’s aggressive branding starts right up front at the top of the landing page, and it broadly hypes organic implementation “up and down the supply chain.” But as many consumers are learning, as with so many aspects of our national organic program, the realities […]
Continue ReadingUnited Way Overhead Just 19%? Think Again It’s that time of year again, and as people gear up to give to charities in these big annual charity promotions, United Way, a very common choice for third party donation handling, is usually in the spotlight. One of the big questions is how much of your United […]
Continue ReadingDozens of local residents packed Columbia’s historic Watch and Clock Museum yesterday to talk about some things that are important to them in their community. Front and center was a recent ordinance enacted by Borough Council to approve “a commercial revolving loan program” where borough money is loaned to private business owners. This contentious policy, […]
Continue ReadingKeeping Monsanto Out of Your Home Garden We know that the global biotech company Monsanto does some crazy things with nature – they’ve been in the public eye for years and years. But some conscientious gardeners don’t know exactly how many of the smaller seed companies have been bought up by this corporate giant, and […]
Continue ReadingColumbia Borough Council Violating the State Sunshine Act? Columbia borough’s ongoing struggle with residents who want change is a dramatic example of how different readings of Pennsylvania open meetings laws often cause problems in real life. An LNP story June 13 shows another Columbia Borough vote is at issue – reporter Chris Courogen characterizes the […]
Continue ReadingBad Times for the American Farmer: Climate, Trade Conflict a One-Two Punch This year, there are new concerns about how crops will fare overall, due to a combination of factors, some natural, and others man-made: some even seem to have been made mostly by one man! First there’s the climate reality and the conditions that […]
Continue ReadingYou Are Labor! *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer When we really talk frankly about our freedoms as Americans, we run into some pretty tricky semantic problems. One of the absolute worst ones is trying to talk about the interests of labor in an age where people don’t really understand what it means to stick up […]
Continue ReadingRaise the Bail – Don’t Tell the Defense!! *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer As we’re finally starting to take a clearer-eyed look at the U.S. criminal justice system after a legacy of punitive excess: the enormously expensive and devastating war on drugs that took place throughout the last few decades and extremely punitive three strikes […]
Continue ReadingThe George Powell Case: False Testimony and Bad Science Got a Man 28 Years *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer Since 2009, Texas native Georgia Powell remains locked up for a crime he says he didn’t commit – robbing a local Killeen, Texas 7-Eleven store. However, last month, Powell won the right to a new trial, […]
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