Food
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 11:33 pm
Federal antitrust top cop Christine Varney has been talking to farmers across the nation lately about anti-competitive agricultural markets. On March 29, she'll be at Genesee Community College to get an earful from New York's dairy farmers.
Farmers... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 4:40 pm
If you're a farmer, odds are you don't have $100,000 in your back pocket for an M.B.A. But you've got business problems that would keep Warren Buffett up at night. How do you get your perishable wares to eaters (and, of course, buyers) of food? Finding... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010 - 6:13 pm
Public school lunch is generally a joyless affair: mystery-meat sloppy joes, frozen tater tots, canned string beans that last saw dirt and sunlight sometime in the Clinton administration. But for one glorious day this week, Delaware Academy students in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010 - 2:32 pm
One of Spring Lake Farm's sows enjoying the March sunshine. Photo by Ulla Kjarval.
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010 - 9:34 am
Millstones used to be critical to America's food chain. Until the late 1800s, when steel rollers began to take over the job, flour was made by grinding grain with heavy millstones turned by water or wind power. But before you could grind the grain, you... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 4, 2010 - 3:34 pm
Ulster County farmer John Fazio has been getting plenty of attention from the Internet lately, thanks to a couple of media mentions: a Food Curated video of his rabbits, and an article in the New York Times on rabbits-as-dinner. The video, which features... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 11:08 pm
Little Catskills towns have a funny way of messing with your plans. Five years ago, staunch Brooklynites Frank and Cherie Davis settled in Roxbury (population: 2,509), thinking it would be a cozy spot from which to run their web design business. Somewhere... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2010 - 6:42 pm
According to Dairy Herd Management, bright prospects for Domino's could be driving up dairy prices nationwide.
Increased pizza consumption may help trim excess cheese supplies and provide a lift for beleaguered dairy producers still reeling from a milk-... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 6:50 pm
NYC ag lawyer Cari Rincker recently helped to start a New York chapter of the American Agri-Women Association. She's looking for other digitally connected women in New York agriculture:
New York Agri-Women now has a Facebook fan page and you can follow... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 2:59 pm
Farmers are rallying in the state capital to oppose a farmworkers' labor bill, the subject of a hearing in the Legislature today.
The North Fork Vue, a Long Island online newspaper, recently published an in-depth piece on the controversy over the bill.... Read more
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