Farming pain, inflated food prices, and Pad Thai: Episode 138

The pain of paying for food

         Last week I was at the grocery store and grabbed a bottle of water on the way to the cash register. I felt bad about adding more plastic in the landfill, but needed the water to wash down my Advil and bring some relief to the headache caused by grocery shopping.          As I…

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The Perfect Storm

Are we in the “perfect storm” of circumstances that’s shooting off lightening bolts about the agrifood business?  Let’s take a look at conditions that are putting food production into the limelight – and not in a very kindly fashion.

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