Female Dairy Farmers Bring Hope The United States needs more farmers, yet the number of farmers is decreasing due to people moving off the land and the cost of starting a farm being so expensive. Agricultural land takes up about half of the U.S. landmass, but the people who farm that land are close to 55 years in age or older. The majority of young people going into farming today go into vegetable farming or small livestock herds. Dairy is a tougher industry though because of the land requirements and expensive equipment. Sarah Lyons Chase, a dairy farmer in the Hudson Valley region said, "Today, farms have to get big or get out. There has been a massive die-off of dairy farms in the area."
Female Diary Farmers Bring Hope The U.S. number of farmers is decreasing due to certain costs. Most of the farmers are older. Then they are closer to retirement. Young people are interested in farming vegetables or small livestock herds. The dairy industry is very expensive though. Dairy drives 70 percent of the economy in Vermont, as well as many other parts of the northeastern U.S., but it’s not growing fast enough.
College kids picking up the scraps There once was a massive pile of trash noticed in front of a dining hall at the University of Maryland in College Park. This pile turned out to be a stunt to get the students thinking about how much food they throw out each day.Today, students are the amount of food they waste, and its environmental and social impact, a lot more often. The average college student generates 142 pounds of food waste a year. College campuses as a group throw out a total of 22 million pounds of uneaten food each year. Colleges and Universities are forced to throw food away because they never know exactly how many people will be dining in their cafeterias every day. To this day, students in the network have saved nearly 640,000 pounds of food, which they repackage and driven by students in their own cars to local agencies that feed the hungry.
Not going to lie, I chose this article, because I'm obsessed with assonance so I had to read it to see if the writer was any more clever. I was pretty grossed out when I clicked on it, because apparently smut is a disease that corn plants can get. It's breaking out in Mexico right now. It causes (at the least) 20% loss of marketable crop. Yuck. Apparently, though, since poverty is high there, the Mexicans are eating the smut infested corn, and calling it huitlacoche. It's a delicacy there I guess. And, it's been found to be healthy, delicious, and similar to eating mushrooms. The smut is becoming more and more popular, and it could spread to the midwest USA, but it may not be all that much of a disadvantage.
College Kids Picking Up The Scraps Linda saw a huge pile of trash when she was in college and it turned out it was actually food. There was a half eaten sandwich, a browning apple, and what looked like the day’s lunch special. The point of that was to get students thinking about how much food they actually waist each day. Now, students are watching their food waste more, and its environmental and social influence.
On the eve of the state legislature's annual session, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam reiterated the need for Florida to adopt a statewide, flexible water policy.The event, which took place Monday at the First Baptist Church of Plant City, was sponsored by the Lakeland-based Farm Credit of Central Florida."If you look back at the recession we went through, and the slow recovery that we've experienced, the strawberry industry is the main reason this community has survived and thrived as well as it has," said Reginald Holt, president and CEO of Farm Credit of Central Florida, referring to the Plant City area and its most prominent crop. "It kept real estate values up at very reasonable levels — we know because we are involved in 13 Central Florida counties — and the values in this area stayed way above where they did elsewhere."
Female Dairy Farmers Bring Hope
ReplyDeleteThe United States needs more farmers, yet the number of farmers is decreasing due to people moving off the land and the cost of starting a farm being so expensive. Agricultural land takes up about half of the U.S. landmass, but the people who farm that land are close to 55 years in age or older. The majority of young people going into farming today go into vegetable farming or small livestock herds. Dairy is a tougher industry though because of the land requirements and expensive equipment. Sarah Lyons Chase, a dairy farmer in the Hudson Valley region said, "Today, farms have to get big or get out. There has been a massive die-off of dairy farms in the area."
Female Diary Farmers Bring Hope
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. number of farmers is decreasing due to certain costs. Most of the farmers are older. Then they are closer to retirement. Young people are interested in farming vegetables or small livestock herds. The dairy industry is very expensive though. Dairy drives 70 percent of the economy in Vermont, as well as many other parts of the northeastern U.S., but it’s not growing fast enough.
College kids picking up the scraps
ReplyDeleteThere once was a massive pile of trash noticed in front of a dining hall at the University of Maryland in College Park. This pile turned out to be a stunt to get the students thinking about how much food they throw out each day.Today, students are the amount of food they waste, and its environmental and social impact, a lot more often. The average college student generates 142 pounds of food waste a year. College campuses as a group throw out a total of 22 million pounds of uneaten food each year. Colleges and Universities are forced to throw food away because they never know exactly how many people will be dining in their cafeterias every day. To this day, students in the network have saved nearly 640,000 pounds of food, which they repackage and driven by students in their own cars to local agencies that feed the hungry.
Smitten With Smut
ReplyDeleteNot going to lie, I chose this article, because I'm obsessed with assonance so I had to read it to see if the writer was any more clever. I was pretty grossed out when I clicked on it, because apparently smut is a disease that corn plants can get. It's breaking out in Mexico right now. It causes (at the least) 20% loss of marketable crop. Yuck. Apparently, though, since poverty is high there, the Mexicans are eating the smut infested corn, and calling it huitlacoche. It's a delicacy there I guess. And, it's been found to be healthy, delicious, and similar to eating mushrooms. The smut is becoming more and more popular, and it could spread to the midwest USA, but it may not be all that much of a disadvantage.
College Kids Picking Up The Scraps
ReplyDeleteLinda saw a huge pile of trash when she was in college and it turned out it was actually food. There was a half eaten sandwich, a browning apple, and what looked like the day’s lunch special. The point of that was to get students thinking about how much food they actually waist each day. Now, students are watching their food waste more, and its environmental and social influence.
On the eve of the state legislature's annual session, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam reiterated the need for Florida to adopt a statewide, flexible water policy.The event, which took place Monday at the First Baptist Church of Plant City, was sponsored by the Lakeland-based Farm Credit of Central Florida."If you look back at the recession we went through, and the slow recovery that we've experienced, the strawberry industry is the main reason this community has survived and thrived as well as it has," said Reginald Holt, president and CEO of Farm Credit of Central Florida, referring to the Plant City area and its most prominent crop. "It kept real estate values up at very reasonable levels — we know because we are involved in 13 Central Florida counties — and the values in this area stayed way above where they did elsewhere."
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