Thursday, April 30, 2009

National Black Farmers

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Had their demonstration on April 28. It didn't get much coverage, and the accuracy of the coverage it got was a bit lacking. The confer...

White House Harvest

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Obamafoororama says the White House had their first harvest yesterday--lettuce. The accompanying picture looks more as if the kids are pla...

H1N1 Flu and Locavores

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Walt Jeffries at Sugar Mountain sees things differently than I did here --he believes locavore pig farmers won't be hurt, indeed will b...

Expanding Animal Rights: Privacy?

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NYTimes has an article on drugs and Kentucky Derby horses--one trainer cited the horse's privacy in refusing to talk to the reporter.

Stimulus Helping Curious George?

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USDA has a new site for the stimulus act, a map showing the locations of work being funded by the act. Hat tip: FarmPolicy.com. It's p...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Obama and Old-Time Farming

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From an Obama speech on education : We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed t...

Acre Handbook

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FSA has posted the handbook which includes instructions for the ACRE program on their website. I hope Chris Clayton at DTN is satisfied wit...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Agricultural History--Michael J Roberts

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Prof. Roberts has an invaluable post at Greed, Green and Grains with some historical graphs of field crop yields and prices, entitled Six ...

Babcock on FCIC

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From Farmgate: The question of governmental support for farmers’ risk management will receive either strong support or opposition, and a les...

North American Flu and Locavores

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It's not "swine-flu", it's "North American flu" because it is a mixture of strains of flu (human, bird, swine) s...