by Hannah Westheimer | Oct 20, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones? While this article is obviously written for the consumer, forward thinking dairy and food producers have long known that production is not about quantity but quality. With...
by Hannah Westheimer | Oct 19, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
Check out The End Of Organic Farming Might Be Sooner Than We Thought with Comments below by Tim Wightman. http://www.refinery29.com/2015/10/94908/small-organic-farm-businesses-unsustainable-agriculture It’s a sad fact that the generations of people who grew up on...
by Hannah Westheimer | Sep 20, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
Click here to read the full article It may take one person to both monitor the robots and manage the herd, but it takes another two people to manage an organic pasture and another two minimum to grow and harvest crops. Also, even after 20 years of improvement and...
by Hannah Westheimer | Sep 18, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
What the Sale of Niman Ranch Could Mean for Farmers The author used a misleading photo for the story cover and left out the fact that the support system for small farms is so disassembled that you have to scale up in order to compete. Get big enough and you become...
by Hannah Westheimer | Jul 22, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
From our good friends at Grist- – Thank you Dr. Grandin for bringing an objective viewpoint to the conversation. Check out the article here.
by Farm To Consumer Foundation | Dec 9, 2014 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News
If you’re a student FFA member, write an essay about the role of sustainable agriculture in the future of food production in the U.S. for a chance to win a trip for you and a chaperone to your choice of one of sustainable agriculture’s largest conferences —...
