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Bringing new and old farmers together to share information

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The Center for Rural Affairs in NE has a program called Land Link that helps connect new farmers with experienced ones.  These bonds are made to help new farmers learn about retirement planning, financing, farm business, etc.  Click on the link below to read more

 

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Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced a new initiative - 'Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food' - to begin a national conversation to help develop local and regional food systems and spur economic opportunity. To launch the initiative, Secretary Vilsack recorded a video to invite Americans to join the discussion and share their ideas for ways to support local agriculture.

Food waste used as energy source

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The East Bay Municipal Utility District, which provides water and wastewater treatment in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, is turning food scraps from 2,300 Bay Area restaurants and grocery stores into electricity to help it power its wastewater facility.

The project is the first of its kind in the nation for a wastewater treatment plant, the Environmental Protection Agency says, and it's at the forefront of an almost untapped renewable energy resource.
 

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Top foods to avoided by food safety experts

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Liz Vaccariello, Editor in Chief of Prevention Magazine, recently interviewed several experts on food healthfulness and safety. She asked, “What foods do you avoid”, and was surprised by some of the answers.

1. Canned Tomatoes, Canned Soup, Canned Green Beens

2. Corn-Fed Beef

3. Microwave Popcorn

4. Nonorganic Potatoes and Carrots

5. Farmed Salmon

6. Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones

7. Nonorganic Apples and Pears

Food trends for 2010

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Foodchannel.com, CultureWaves, and the International Food Futurists have released their top 10 food trends for 2010.

1.  return to basic ingredients

2.  experimentation in restaurant concepts

3.  growing grocery stores including more private label brands, upgraded delis, and fresh take-out sections

4.  American, the new ethnic

5.  food sourcing

6.  sustainability

7.  foodies

8.  bartering

9.  food that reflects personality

10.  beneficial foods including, nutrient-added, gluten-free, and allergy-free

DNA testing food

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Now that technology costs are coming down, supermarketguru.com believes DNA tests—to determine the exact species of fish in sushi, to distinguish between wild-caught and farm-raised fish at the seafood counter, or to uncover melamine in milk, as examples—will become more common for many kinds of foods. It seems a natural next step to mounting demands for country-of-origin knowledge, food security, and increased confidence that people get to consume what they think they’re consuming.

New import food safety center opens

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Customs and Border Protection on Dec. 9 opened the Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (C.T.A.C.) for Import Safety in Washington. Created on the recommendation of President Obama’s Food Safety Working Group, the C.T.A.C. will allow closer communication among federal agencies for enforcement of tougher import safety and food safety laws recently implemented by Congress.