Showing posts with label sustainable agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainable agriculture. Show all posts
Sunday, July 03, 2016

The Future of Agriculture: Wired Tomatoes

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This post at Technology Review describes the potential for really precision agriculture--essentially applying the "internet of things...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

A Billion Is a Token Amount

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So says the greenies, the National Sustainable AGriculture Coalition commenting on the Republican budget (from agriculture.com) “While we ...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

"Progressives" and "The Progressive Farmer"

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Minds are funny.  I just Google+1ed a post at Casaubon's Book , something I rarely do.  (The writer Sharon Astyk is deep into the foodi...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

How Congresspeople Keep Groups Happy

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The Sustainable Agriculture Coalition posts about the bill coming out of Senate Ag.  They include this: The latter [the matching grant ini...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

More Young People Running Small Farms?

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One of the fault lines in the green/food movement is shown here.  Ideally they'd like to see more young farmers and small farmers.  They...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

When Is an Earmark an Earnmark

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The Sustainable Ag Coalition believes that ATTRA lost its funding because Congress thought it was an earmark: One very distressing casualt...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Profits and Sustainability

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Chris Clayton sees a gap between the aspirations of the sustainable ag movement and the realities of profit-seeking   From the summary of t...
Monday, December 14, 2009

A Question for Foodies

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According to this post at Universal York, by 1900 the small city of York, PA had five thriving farmers markets.  So my question to foodies...
Tuesday, December 08, 2009

The Problems of Foodies--"Founding Farmers" Restaurant

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Jane Black had an article on the problems the hot new "Founding Farmers restaurant" has with its goal of serving local, sustainabl...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

No-Till for the Long Haul

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Ag Web has an article from a long time no-till farmer which should  please the greens and foodies on first reading, if not the second.  I...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Recession and Locavores

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Mr. Wells in the NYTimes Magazine writes about adapting his family's food buying in light of the recession's impacts: Until recent...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Have Any Architects Ever Gardened?

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Here's a sentence from a proposa l for a Dallas project,which is supposed to be "economically, environmentally and socially sustai...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Indian Elections and Vandana Shiva

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Ms Vandana Shiva is an Indian activist who attacks the green revolution and industrial agriculture. She's pushed the meme of suicides ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

New Farmers in Nebraska

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U of Nebraska has a piece on ag students possibly returning to the farm and the hurdles they face. It's interesting, but would be disc...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Wealth, Not Scarcity, Was the Cause of High Food Prices

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We got through a scare about food scarcity last year--prices soared. Some foodies thought it was a sign of impending disaster, as the indust...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

Mother Jones on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture

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Via Kevin Drum, here's a long and good article in Mother Jones on the current and future state of organic and sustainable agriculture....
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Claims by the Corn Growers--We're Crunchy

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According to a piece via EWG: "Specifically, corn has seen the following changes between 1987 and 2007, Dickey [President of National ...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Reminder to Foodies: Advise and Consent

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The "foodies" (i.e., organic, locavore, sustainable advocates) have been proposing names, first for Secretary of Agriculture and n...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Tight Budgets

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Chris Clayton at DTN has an interview with the President of the Farm Bureau predicting farm programs will face tight budgets. That, in my ...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Standards for "Sustainable Agriculture"

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Interesting piece on the steps in the bureaucratic evolution of standards for "sustainable agriculture" here. It's moving a...