My digest fodder folder was getting pretty full. Here are some tidbits. This horse is beaten, but is it dead? Remember the farm bill? Yea, that big ugly bit of legislation that touches our diets in very real but often hidden ways? Well, the House and Senate conference committee is trying to sort out the [...]
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We have mixed feed bag of news items today. Talking turkey. The Salina Journal reports that a NYT reporter and a gaggle of representatives from poultry, animal-welfare and other groups will be in town to see how Frank Reese Jr. raises and breeds his heritage turkeys and chickens. No mention of why they didn’t invite [...]
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Considering how long it’s been since I did a digest, there’s remarkably little local food news that seems to need passing on. Here, nevertheless, are some items of interest. Farm Bill again, and still. They’re finally getting around to resolving differences between the House and Senate versions of the Farm Bill. Our state’s pawn of [...]
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Green up the growing. K-State program in KC on Growing Growers puts apprentices on farms and promotes sustainable methods. This year includes a new focus on organic fruit production. It is just like that other steak. Kansas rancher already selling semen from clones,(Washington Post, registration required) and offspring of cloned cattle are in the food [...]
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Anyone who gardens or farms is thinking about what to plant come spring, and the conferences are ready to help. ‘Sustainable’ not on menu. The Topeka Farm Show is coming up next week (Jan. 8-10) 20 miles to the west. If I have time, I might go take a look around, but the exhibitors list [...]
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I’m going to try a little experiment here to see whether I like doing it and whether readers like reading it. The experiment: To issue a news digest once a week or so that provides links to news stories that interest me and that are related to food and food policy. I’ll model it after [...]
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