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Farm Babe: Antibiotic resistance from livestock to humans, easily explained – AGDAILY.COM
Did you know that all meat and dairy products are antibiotic free? If farmers use antibiotics on livestock, by law that animal must go through a withdrawal period to ensure the drug is no longer in th... Read More
This much is certain: For farmers, crop insurance is essential
Source: http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/icymi-this-much-is-certain-for-farmers-crop-insurance-is-essential/#.WGXafX2zC4M Craig Hill, Iowa 6:04 p.m. CDT October 4, 2016 There are a number of cert... Read More
Big Media Takes on Big Food, Big Ag and Big Meat – Meat Institute
Source: http://blog.meatinstitute.org/2016/10/big-media-takes-on-big-food-big-ag-and-big-meat/ By: Eric Mittenthal “Lazy, unfair and pointlessly vague.” That’s how the Washington Post’s Paul ... Read More
Farm Babe: Why you should feel comfortable with the safety of our meat supply – AGDAILY.COM
By Michelle Miller, Farm Babe http://www.farmbabe.org/ Published: October 11, 2016 I had the most fascinating experience the other day! I wanted to learn more about how thoroughly meat is inspecte... Read More
EWG Stoops to New Low, Resorts to Pure Fiction in Latest Attack – Farm Policy Facts
With crop insurance’s popularity rising in rural America and on Capitol Hill, and with the policy’s budget outlays falling, we’re guessing one of its harshest critics, the Environmental Working ... Read More
Food does not come from a grocery store – Merced Sun-Star
BY JIM COSTA Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over. In the Valley, we all know the phrase, coined by Mark Twain more than a century ago. It is tired, overused and just as accurate as eve... Read More
Farmer’s Daughter: Nostalgia is no reason to put legal limits on farms – AGDAILY.COM
By Amanda Zaluckyj, The Farmer’s Daughter USA Once I started law school, there were a few changes I urged my parents to make to our farming operation. They needed to have written lease agreements, w... Read More
Farm Babe: From tires to toilets, today’s world runs on GMOs – AGDAILY.COM
By Michelle Miller, Farm Babe http://www.farmbabe.org/ Published: November 01, 2016 Around 90 percent of certain crop farmers have been growing GMOs for a couple of decades now, but what are they and ... Read More