Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Tuesday Links +

πŸ“Œ The government is 'scamming us to grow corn ethanol instead of real food' (Written by Kimbal Musk who owns restaurants here in Boulder, and who is the brother of Elon Musk) | Tech Insider

πŸ“Œ This is written by Bob Goodlatte, House of Rep. from Virginia, who has introduced a new bill trying to repeal the ethanol mandate: "As we work to build support for eliminating the mandate, I’ve also introduced bipartisan legislation to make significant reforms to it, including capping the amount of ethanol in the fuel supply at 10 percent and eliminating corn-based ethanol requirements." | Daily Progress

πŸ“Œ The ethanol industry, on the other hand, wishes to see higher blends, E15 and E85, and more exports which are now at 1 billion gallons per year | Biofuels International

πŸ“Œ Southern Minnesota ethanol producer fined yet again for polluting | StarTribune

πŸ“Œ In this opinion piece, Bruce I. Knight, the principal at Strategic Conservation Solutions and a former Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, turns his ongoing series on the 2018 Farm Bill toward soil health... | Agree

πŸ“Œ Bottom-up versus export-led development (This is good.) | Policy Pennings

πŸ“Œ FAO's Biannual Food Outlook Report for June 2016 | FAO

πŸ“Œ Autonomous Ag Future | Iowa Farmer Today

πŸ“Œ Pakistan Cotton Crisis | IPS

πŸ“Œ Following the momentous vote out of N.D., the North Dakota Farm Bureau asked a federal judge to declare the state’s nearly century-old anti-corporate farming law unconstitutional. | Agri-News

πŸ“Œ For Wisconsin beekeepers, a question: To migrate, or not? "Hauke, who sends 2,400 hives there (California) each year, called it "a cesspool" in which sick honeybees mingle with healthy ones among the trees that produce 50 to 80 percent of the world's almonds. Making matters worse, some almond farmers spray pesticides when the bees are pollinating, he said." | The Sacramento Bee

πŸ“Œ GMO labels: The great American food fight; How Vermont's labeling law for genetically modified foods may change what America eats. | Christian Science Monitor

πŸ“Œ Montana's Richard Geary is down about ranching and barely making a living in this eloquent philosophical rambling. | Missoulian

πŸ“Œ A Momentous Change is Underway in the Egg Case | USDA

πŸ“Œ Land Grabbing by Global Agribusiness; GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world | Global Research

πŸ“Œ Orange quality excellent as varieties, sources shift | The Packer

πŸ“Œ In Nebraska and other rural regions, it is immigration which is revitalizing communities hit by aging and a brain-drain. (Part 2.) | Center for Rural Affairs

πŸ“Œ Chicago Is Quietly Becoming America’s Urban Farming Capital | Alternet

πŸ“Œ Israel’s solution to peanut allergies - introduce at-risk babies to peanuts? | Food Politics

πŸ“Œ Australian dairy farmers need grocery aid because they can't make a living | ABC

πŸ“Œ Sometimes in farming, you lose a finger | Coloradoan

πŸ“Œ Photos of organic farming pioneer, Steven Schwenn's farm in Minnesota. | Minnesota Public Radio

I love this piece of art by Nina Montenegro (republished with permission of the artist) which demonstrates the amazing repetition of patterns evident throughout Nature. It is a wax rubbing of tree rings and a fingerprint, side by side. Her website is here: www.ninamontengro.com .

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