Keeping you up to date ...
- Population pressures and biofuels are cramping food production capacity, while climate change isn't helping matters.
- The USDA doesn't want to say who ate recalled meat, suggesting that it would confuse the public. That's an interesting way to to do cya for the meat packers.
- Food costs are rising everywhere, it isn't just your market, it isn't just your imagination.
- Rural economies in a sudden economic boom because of high grain prices, though input costs are rising fast, as well.
- A 4-acre certified organic greenhouse is up and running in Michigan.
biofuels and the related high demand for corn... it's gonna be a very bad thing for the dead zone in the Gulf! :(