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All About Avocados

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Fill Your Plate

Avocados can liven up almost every one of your family favorites including salads, sandwiches, side dishes, and entrees.

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Once Upon a Time There was a Magical Meal

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Fill Your Plate

Tell a Fairytale Day is on February 26th. A great way to feature everyone’s favorite fairytale is to make a fairytale menu that lasts from breakfast to dessert. Have each member of your family pick their favorite fairytale and then use the foods from those stories to create your menu. Here are some ideas to get you started.

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Resilience of American Agriculture: Innovation, Diversity, & Growing Markets

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Fill Your Plate

  The drought of 2012 is the most serious to impact U.S. agriculture since 1988. The illustrations help show the resiliency of the US agriculture sector and how it is better positioned today to endure this natural disaster.  

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What Factors Impact Food Prices? Part 2

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Fill Your Plate

In the first part of this series, we talked about how production and weather impact the price of our food. Now, let’s look at another of the factors that we don’t hear about as much but that can actually have a more substantial impact on how much it will cost to fill our plates.

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What Factors Impact Food Prices? – Part 1

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Fill Your Plate

There has been a lot of talk on the news lately about how this news story or that news story will definitely result in the price of some food skyrocketing.  The furor over bacon being impossible to get is a … Continue reading →

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