Food prices expected to rise in 2021 while demand stays high
Washington, D.C. – In 2020, food-at-home prices saw their largest increase in nine years. This year is not expected to be any different, according to the USDA.
Michigan farming initiative hopes to turn city lots into fun gardens
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) – A team of Blue Water Area locals are sowing the seeds of a Port Huron farming initiative, with plans to buy city lots to provide food and education to the community.
EAST BOOTHBAY, Maine (AP) — A Maine science center has received a grant of almost $900,000 for research into ways that aquaculture of kelp can be used to combat climate change.
Pandemic has lead ASA World Initiative to become innovative
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The American Soybean Associations’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) Program and the Northern Crops Institute (NCI) have risen to the challenges of COVID-19 travel restrictions, with the support of state soybean organizations.
JACKSONBURG, Ohio – It was a cold January day. Brookelynn Pruitt, age 13, was braiding her horse Oliver’s mane. Oliver got a little nervous, watching something. That attracted Pruitt’s attention to the two girls walking on the ice on the farm pond.
Raising organic crops for local consumers in Tennessee
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. – For many years Mark Murphy’s livelihood involved guitars; as a rock and roll guitar player and owner of a guitar shop in Nashville. But, eight years ago he took an abrupt turn, buying a 200-acre piece of ground on Bottle Hollow Road in Flat Creek.
