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farmers find and share information. | What's New -- Nov. '97
A chronological list of additions to this site.
Local
contact: Northern Plains
Sustainable Agriculture Society [11/28/97]
Links to Prairie Ecosystem Study Project,
Univ. of Saskatchewan and the Univ. of Guelph Agroecosystem Health Project
from our University Sustainable Ag Programs
links page [11/28/97]
Link to North American Deer Farmers Association
from our Grazing Links page [11/26/97] --
Information about getting started producing for a market that is growing 30
percent annually. U.S. farmers meet only 25 to 30 percent of domestic demand.
Link to Organic Trade Association from our
Organic Farming, Marketing, and Certification
Resources page [11/26/97] -- Membership organization represents the organic
industry in Canada and the United States. Members include growers, shippers,
processors, certifiers, farmer associations, brokers, consultants,
distributors and retailers.
Link
to Fencing Tips and Advice
from our Online Fence-Building References
page [11/26/97] -- Primer from Baygard
Electric Fence Products.
Link to New
Money-Making Options With Trees from our Agroforestry
menu [11/26/97] -- Report on alley-cropping and silvo-pastural options being
explored at the USDA Small Farms Research Center, Booneville, Arkansas.
Link to
Community Supported
Agriculture from our Growing for Market
page [11/26/97] -- Homepage for the CSA-L email discussion list, this page
provides excellent links to resources and other sites of interest to folks
considering starting a CSA. Includes links to CSA webpages. Part of John
Barclay's Prairieland Community
Supported Agriculture site.
Link to Farmscaping to Enhance
Biological Control from our Cover Crops
page [11/26/97] -- This excellent online resource from ATTRA tells how to turn
your farm into a home for beneficial insects to help check pest problems.
Please register at the site's publication
page before viewing.
Link to The Carbohydrate Economy from our
Agroforestry menu [11/26/97] --
Thought-provoking site based on the premise that wood, fiber crops and other
plant-derived materials could replace oil as our primary source of energy and
industrial feedstocks.
New additions
to Surfing With Michele [11/26/97]
-- Compendiums of eclectic links on the subjects of
Prion Diseases,
Animal rights/farming and
Factory/corporate farming.
New stories
for More Weird Farm News [11/26/97]
-- The Smell of Money (Part 2) and Cow Hairball Art. Enjoy!
Link to:
Conference to Celebrate 10
Years of USDA SusAg Program [11/25/97] -- Jim Hightower is one of the
featured keynote speakers at "Building on a Decade of Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education:
Sharing experiences to improve our agriculture," March 5-7, 1998,
Austin, Texas. Great program lined up for this meeting celebrating the 10th
anniversary of USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
(SARE) Program.
Thanksgiving
Special: Support Bargaining Rights for
Turkey Farmers [11/25/97] --Problem is part of a growing trend that
includes fruits, vegetables, hogs, beef.
Link to Bid to Win [11/21/97] --
Improve your chance of successfully enrolling land in CRP with this online
worksheet from the Center for Rural Affairs.
Link to Pioneer Rejects Roundup-Ready Corn
[11/21/97] -- "One trait, especially resistance to a herbicide, should
never be the sole criteria for hybrid selection," says CEO. Story at
Charles Benbrook's Pest Management at the
Crossroads website.
Ole & Sven Go Organic
[11/18/97] -- In our Rural Writings area.
Scandinavian humor at its best, a tongue-in-cheek parable on the eve of federal
organic standards.
Grazing Alfalfa Successfully
[11/18/97] -- It takes a careful balance between the needs of the stock and the
needs of the stand, says the University of Missouri's Jim Gerrish.
Link to Internet Tutorials
from our Surfing With Michele links
menu [11/17/97] -- From the University of Albany library, here's a great way to
sharpen your internet skills.
Link to Is Organic Food More Nutritious?
from our Organic Farming, Marketing, and
Certification Resources [11/17/97] -- Thought-provoking, informative thread
from the sanet-mg
discussion group at Dr. Charles Benbrook's Pest
Management at the Crossroads site.
Link to The Champion Tree Project
from our Agroforestry page [11/14/97] --
Find out how you can help protect, preserve and propagate the biggest, best,
tallest, strongest, and eldest representatives of Earth's largest plants.
Link to Iowa Hog Confinement
from our Farm Policy page. [11/11/97] --
Not just for Iowans, this grassroots site helps link farmers and others
concerned about megahog operations.
Fun Stuff [11/11/97] -- Links to explore
after the work is done.
Mobile Poultry Processing Unit
[11/10/97] -- Trailer-mounted facility helps cut processing costs for
small-scale poultry producers. Includes
Photo Gallery of the unit in
action.
For the Love of Farming --
Compost, cover crops, rotations and green manures build healthy soil on this
Tennessee producer farm.
Link to
Farmers
File Class Action Suit Against Fertilizer Companies from our
News and Events page. [11/10/97] -- Claim
fertilizer laced with dangerous levels of arsenic, mercury and other toxic
wastes killed crops, ruined lives.
Link to Arbico from our
Cover Crop and Forage Seed Sources page
[11/10/97] -- Cover crop offerrings include Austrian winter peas, fall mix
including vetch, annual mixes with and without ryegrass, white clover, and a mix
that attracts beneficial insects. Available in garden-size amounts for low-cost
experimentation. Be sure to explore the rest of the
Arizona Biological Control
site IPM info and supplies such as beneficial insects. See especially their
Pest Problem Solver Guide.
Link to Strip Intercropping
from our Grain and Beans page. [11/10/97] --
Short summary of the benefits of growing corn, soybeans and small grains in
narrow strips at the growing
site of Iowa
State University agronomist Mohammadreza Ghaffarzadeh. Nice pictures.
Link to Organically Grown Products
page at Today's Market Prices from
our Marketing Links page. [11/10/97] --
Listing of organic products for sale and sought.
Link to The BuyGreen Virginia
Partnership from our Growing for Market
page. [11/10/97] -- A joint project of the Virginia Association for Biological
Farming and Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet, this model program seeks
to build bridges between producers and consumers. Labelling program with three
levels of certification -- certified organic, ecological and conservation.
Link to PlantLink from our
Cover Crops page [11/7/97] -- Excellent
search engine for finding out more about your favorite covers.
Link to Center for Grassland Studies,
University of Nebraska from our Grazing
Links page [11/7/97] -- Features back issues of the Center's wide-ranging
newsletter --
everything from a report on a Wisconsin study of pasture songbirds in the
Winter '97 issue to
articles about controlled burning as as a range-management tool. Great list of
grassland and pasture links.
Local
contact: Smokey Mountain Dairy
Goat Association [11/7/97]
Alternative Ag News
[11/5/97] -- November issue featuring precision ag in research title,
slow-moving organic standards, NRCS chief Paul Johnson's resignation, rootworm
IPM.
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