The "Farmer to Farmer Education Act" was recently introduced in the Senate, and between 2007 and 2021, the percentage of U.S. fresh fruit and vegetable availability supplied by imports grew.
In this opinion piece, Farmer-to-Farmer implementer Valerie Varco discusses the need for Congress to reauthorize the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Program in the upcoming Farm Bill.
One South Dakotan who is passionate about food safety, recently used up her two weeks’ vacation and volunteered to work to improve food safety in Egypt.
that we have to keep in mind that tree planting isjust that we have to keep in mind that tree planting is just one tool for restoring the world, not the solution to every problem, and where and how we plant is just as important as what we plant. i mean, many countries, like china, brazil and india, are producing large blocks of single species of trees, and frankly it has caused a lot of habitat destruction. sometimes the best answer, and this has been pursued by some countries, is to step back and let nature do the work. for example, in niger, farmers encouraged trees to grow, took a step back, and what they ended up with was 200 million more trees, which also increase the fertility of their farmland. which also increase the fertility of theirfarmland. i5 which also increase the fertility of their farmland. which also increase the fertility of their farmland. is niger part of the treat their farmland. is niger part of the great green their farmland. is niger part of the great green
can i explain was tuskegee was? they weren t experimenting with vaccines in people. they were not giving people vaccines. yeah. so that s not it s not like they were injecting them with something that was going to be harmful to them. they weren t giving them vaccines. so it s not you know, it s not the same thing. but go on. no, but it s a suspicion about the healthcare system. and and which is understandable. but i believe it s a grassroots solution here. i believe that, in the rural communities, it s got to be farmer to farmer. it s got to be what happens in the small towns, what happens in the taverns with people talking to one another. with the young people, that s you know, that s that s grandma, grandpa saying you can t come see me, if you don t get vaccinated. and when it comes to, you know, the the rest of the people, it it has to be about a bottom-up. it has to be who you know that tells you to go and get this done. and in the minority community, i i thin