Foodchat session 2/16/2010 Question 1: What information do you find useful when making food choices? Question 2: Where do you get info on food from? Do they believe it’s balanced info? Question 3: How do you see food commentators, eg M. Pollan & J. Safer Froer? Do you find them credible-why/why not? Question 4: How…
Consumers have a right to choose. Farmers also deserve that right. The question is where those two choices meet. Thoughts from Michele on food movements and agendas trying to shape the agrifood system.
AgChat session 2/9/2010 Question 1: What practices or management tools have you used to improve your on farm efficiencies in the last 10 years? Question 2: Which technologies have most impacted the way you do your job on your farm? Question 3: What are biggest challenges to maintaining the momentum of productivity increases in US…
Like many pet lovers, it’s hard for me to resist a fuzzy little kitten or puppy dog playing. I was the official kitten rescuer on our farm and saved the lives of several by bottle feeding them. Many of my childhood memories center around animals – trying to persuade the Saint Bernard to pull me…
AgChat session 2/2/2010 Question 1: Is negative media coverage about livestock production a serious threat to producing meat protein in the US? Question 2: What is about this coverage (RE:Q1) that bothers farmers the most? i.e. inaccuracy, not a fair representation, etc. Question 3: What is the one information resource consumers should understand/study/know of, re:…
Yesterday I flew back to Indianapolis on a high from the Kansas Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Annual Meeting. I consider airplanes to be a refuge to either get a lot of work done or sleep, so I’m not always in tune with my fellow passengers. However, I did notice a soldier in first…
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