Tag Archives: food production
Why Your Favorite Meats Could Soon Disappear!
If you are like 96% of the American population, you enjoy eating meat. Whether it’s steak, hamburger, pork, fish, or chicken, we consume on average, about eight ounces of meat per day; more than twice the global average.
But before we can eat that meat it needs to be processed; that is killed, cut up, packaged, and distributed.
And a good percentage of that meat that we enjoy eating is processed by small and independent meat processers located in the United States. However new regulation is threatening to put many of these smaller processers out of business.
Pesticides: To Be or Not To Be?
NRCS Offers Help for Agricultural Energy Audits Individual energy audits will help Arizona producers reduce energy use
Arizona farmers, ranchers, dairies, nursery growers, and other agricultural producers can apply for financial help to get an energy audit for their operation.
America’s Farmers Are Growing More with Less: American Agriculture’s Environmental Success Story
The latest National Resources Inventory (NRI) report, released April 27 by the Agriculture Department’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, puts some substantial meat on the bones of environmental message farmers and ranchers have long conveyed — that they are careful and caring stewards of our nation’s natural resources.
A Day for Chicks to Shine! Mom Bloggers Flock to Hickman’s Family Farms
Clint Hickman lets the mommy bloggers get up close and personal with one of the Hickman Family Farms’ chickens. It was a day for the chicks to shine.