As energy, healthcare, and feed costs skyrocket, organic dairy farmers get squeezed
Guest post by Ed Maltby, executive director
Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance
Deerfield, MA: What is more important to Stonyfield Farm and HP Hood, market share or the health and welfare of their organic family farmers?
If you ask 24-year-old Mark Ouellette Jr., who supplies organic […]
Rising food prices hit home around the world
Grist
Tom Philipott
Hey you, in the supermarket line — yeah, you, the one with the stuffed cart. Are you ready to pay up for those groceries?
You’d better be, pal. That’s the message from Bill Lapp, former chief economist for the food giant Conagra. “I think [U.S.] consumers are […]
New York Times
By Jack Hedin
Rushford, Minn.
IF you’ve stood in line at a farmers’ market recently, you know that the local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand.
But consumers who would like to be able to buy local fruits and vegetables not […]
By Jim Goodman
Advocates of cloning would have us believe it is just another technology on a continuum of breeding methods used in agriculture, and clones are identical twins to the “parent”, just born at a different time, –sure–. It is not just another form of natural breeding or a simple advance on selective breeding practices, […]