To offer the lowest price possible to the consumer, the supermarkets force dairy farmers to sell milk at less than the cost of production. Supermarkets guarantee their good profits while farmers are left struggling to make ends meet, and the taxpayer pays to support the system without even ...
Anaerobic digesters can also tackle another problem: Americans throw out 30 to 40 percent of all the food we grow and make—as much as 80 million tons a year. Food waste is the largest category dumped in municipal landfills, and some states are running out of space. In 2014, Massachusetts...
And yes, you’re correct — without simplifying many other areas of my life, I most likely would not have been able to make the time to do the whole grain thing last year. It took SO much time and effort in the beginning. Of course, now it hardly takes any time at all — but th...
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Keep it refrigerated after you bring it home from the store, and do not leave yogurt at room temperature for longer than two hours or one hour if the temperature is 90 degrees F or above. If left unrefrigerated longer, bacteria can start to grow....
Figures are scant when it comes to determining how much money home-based food business owners make. Some earn a few hundred dollars a month from regular participation in farmers' markets and from stands that sell popular niche products, while others may earn more money by focusing on ...
There are vegans who think it's ok to eat oysters and mussels. I want to go a step farther: vegans should be ok with dairy. Specifically, under pretty conservative assumptions you do much more good donating just $5/year to the Against Malaria Foundation
Quebec’s dairy federation said this amount, between 3.25 and four per cent, is in line with their acceptable allowances, though it will take time to make sure there are no unseen clauses in the document. “As they often say, the devil is in the details and it takes a certain time ...
Much existing evidence focuses on the delivery of KT services, as opposed to the receipt of the advice and resulting application and the impact on the farm level. For example, Kilpatrick and Johns [43] used qualitative methods to examine the diverse patterns of how farmers learn, but fall sho...