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Securing fresh food from fertile soil, challenges to the organic and raw milk movements

by Autumn Ellis | Dec 13, 2017 | Resources | 0 Comments

Dr. Joseph R. Heckman discusses securing fresh food from fertile soil, challenges to the organic and raw milk movements in his latest article. In recent decades, a diverse community of dairy farmers, consumers and nutrition advocates has campaigned amidst considerable...

We Know How To Make Farms More Sustainable, But We’re Not Doing It

by Hannah Westheimer | Dec 12, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News | 0 Comments

The Huffington Post published an article on 12/09/2015 that discusses a new analysis that finds potentially transformative agricultural research isn’t getting the level of funding it probably should. Below are Tim Wightman, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation President,...

From our friends at the New Yorker – Freedom from Fries

by Hannah Westheimer | Nov 9, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News | 0 Comments

Checkout this article from the New Yorker entitled Freedom from Fries - From eating fast food to fast casual dining, progress for sure and one of the results of eating well....

Article Comparing Industrial Agriculture to Organic Agriculture – Comments by Tim Wightman

by Hannah Westheimer | Oct 20, 2015 | Farm-to-Consumer Foundation News | 0 Comments

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...