New York State of Mind: Empowering Women and Creating Local Food Opportunities Posted by Anne L. Alonzo, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator, on September 2, 2015 at 11:00 AM AMS Administrator Anne Alonzo (standing in the middle) joined USDA state colleagues and New York State Commissioner of Agriculture Richard Ball for a roundtable on Women in […]
Posted on June 27, 2015 by Keith Woodford Right now, everyone in the New Zealand dairy industry is figuring out how to get through the next 12 months without too much pain. But eventually events will turn and we will be able to think more strategically about where the industry is going. Down on the […]
A heap of good reading here http://blogs.usda.gov/category/climate-change/
Business of Agriculture: Off-Farm Experience Can Improve Generational Transfer By Rick Hermonot and Jon Jaffe – Thursday, May 14, 2015 Rick Hermonot and Jon Jaffe are consultants with Farm Credit East, working out of the Dayville office. Rick has been with Farm Credit for 27 years, and Jon has been with the organization for 31 […]
When Choosing Your Grocery Shop, Fresh Matters Most! Posted on May 13, 2015 by Prof David Hughes & Miguel Flavián — We note from the Spanish trade press that DIA, a discounter with 7,000 stores in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina, is yet another major grocery retailer that is embracing the fashion to excel in fresh […]
AgScience The NZIAHS blog Home About Contact us 10 May Four more centres of research excellence funded Posted by Bob Edlin in Science funding. Tagged: Centres of excellence, Steven Joyce. Leave a Comment Four more centres of research excellence have been selected by the Tertiary Education Commission at the end of the second round of CoREs […]
Memo: From Nick Hanauer To: My Fellow Zillionaires You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to giant […]
Farmers daily tiptoe around a minefield of regulations and bureaucracy. . OPINION: Who in their right mind would want to go dairy farming? Why do a job that risks a $10,000 fine if your neglect to put your helmet on? Why do a job that risks thousands of dollars of product being discarded if it […]
Farming’s epic battle Posted By: Barry O’Sullivan on 1/05/2015 LIKE the myth of Sisyphus – the man cursed to spend eternity pushing a boulder to the top of a rocky hill in hell, only to have it immediately roll back to the bottom – Australian farmers could be forgiven for thinking their blood, sweat and […]