Confined 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 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 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 ReadingTheft Is Just One Problem with Pennsylvania’s Growing Hemp Industry *Farm Fresh Media Staff Writer The small town of Honeybrook, Pennsylvania isn’t a big manufacturing hub or a large local economy, but it is a center for farmers who grow all kinds of crops in the lush land in the surrounding Chester County area. Now […]
Continue ReadingFarming God’s Way – Publication by Farm Fresh Media The history: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Then he created day and night, sky, land, seas, seed bearing plants and trees, sun, moon, stars, birds and creatures of the sea, livestock and wild creatures, and then from the dust of the […]
Continue ReadingUSDA’s Dairy Margin Protection Program Hailed (By the Feds) As the Solution With America’s small to midsized dairy farmers going out of business in droves, the federal administration is now coming up with a solution called the Dairy Margin Protection Program o alternately, Margin Coverage Program, that would provide money if there’s not […]
Continue ReadingPeople know it intuitively and extensively that food waste and other consumer trash is a major problem in this country. We see the reports on massive plastic pools in the ocean and we see trucks going to our landfills. But how bad is it really? And does anybody really care? Packaging waste plagues […]
Continue ReadingWhen you go out and talk to people about what has happened to our food distribution system, you’ll find that the topic of genetically modified organisms or GMO foods is confusing. People know that GMOs exist, and that there is opposition to GMOs, but they don’t really know what the GMO planting process […]
Continue ReadingThis Article is brought to you by our advocacy program: www.ADVOCACY.fyi How do you define advocacy? There certainly at least two definitions. One is the informal definition of advocacy, which includes counseling, life coaching, informal assistance with understanding legal or financial paperwork, and all kinds of other natural collaborative work to help people […]
Continue ReadingAs U.S. farmers struggled mightily under new tariffs impacting Chinese exports, the American government promised to deliver help in the form of farm bailouts that we counteract the protectionist market activity. Now, new reporting shows that most of those bailout funds have gone to bigger producers. EWG scrutinized Department of Agriculture data […]
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