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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Poll: Rising food prices Are you spending more money on food?	Grist	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Food prices are soaring around the globe. Have you felt the pinch? Take our poll and tell us. You can vote below the fold. And read recent Grist content on the topic: Why Michael Pollan and Alice Waters should quit celebrating food-price hikes How expensive is food, really? Higher food prices mean crappier cafeteria fare for kids
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, food, green living, shopping (all these topics)

ANWR of the heartland? Why plowing up Conservation Reserve Program land won't solve the food crisis	Tom Philpott	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Uh oh. The New York Times reports that 'thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government's biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate.' Rather then let the ground lie fallow, they're planting it with corn, soy, and wheat -- the price of each of which stands near or above all-time highs. 'Last fall, they took back as many acres as are in Rhode Island and Delaware combined,' The Times reports. And there's serious pressure to bring mo ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, cellulosic ethanol, economy, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

More signs of the Apocalypse? Soy, corn, and wheat prices puzzling economists	Tia Ghose	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Just in case you weren't worried about rising food prices, The New York Times has an article out that makes the food markets seem even more volatile. Apparently, identical bushels of corn, wheat, and soybeans are selling for two different prices on the derivatives and cash markets.Now, I'm not an economist, but the first line of the article makes the whole thing sound freakish. From the article: Economists note there should not be two prices for one thing at the same pla ...
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, food (all these topics)

Organic milk: survival of the biggest? Thoughts on the NODPA/Stonyfield debate over organic dairy	Tom Philpott	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill
About four years ago, I attended a workshop by Jonathan White, the maverick New York State cheese maker/baker/dairy farmer of Bobolink Dairy. Photo: iStockphoto Like a Southern Baptist preacher thundering from the pulpit -- only with a Northeastern accent and lots of good humor -- White had a message to deliver. He exhorted conventional dairy farmers to sell half of their herds, invest the proceeds in cheese-making equipment, and turn their remaining cows ...
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, food, organic food (all these topics)

Conditions sour for organic dairy farms Dairy producers' alliance responds to Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm	Guest author	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following guest essay is the latest installment in a debate between Ed Maltby, executive director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance, and Gary Hirshberg, CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm. Maltby opened the debate with this post; Hirshberg responded here; Maltby's response follows below. We are airing the debate at length because we think our readers should know that our organic dairy farmers have reached a crisis point -- squeezed by production costs that are ...
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, food, organic food (all these topics)

How now, organic cow? As energy, healthcare, and feed costs skyrocket, organic dairy farmers get squeezed	Guest author	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest post by Ed Maltby, executive director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance. ----- Deerfield, Mass.: What is more important to Stonyfield Farm and HP Hood, market share or the health and welfare of their organic family farmers? Photo: iStockphoto If you ask 24-year-old Mark Ouellette Jr., who supplies organic milk to HP Hood that is sold under the Stonyfield label, his answer is very clear: market share. 'I'm losi ...
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, food, organic food (all these topics)

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