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I Love Farmers…They Feed My Soul orignated as a grassroots effort by a young people to support American family farmers and ranchers, has now become an official non-profit organization.
I Love Farmers…They Feed My Soul originated out of the frustration by young people who have a passion for agriculture but realized few of their peers really know how their food is grown in America. Additionally, they were angry at the way agriculture is often wrongly portrayed in the mass media and political campaigns.
Using new media technology, the group decided to take matters into their own hands and launched an aggressive social media blitz to share information about family farmers and ranchers. I Love Farmers…They Feed My Soul has become one of the fastest growing Facebook groups on the planet about agriculture. Today more than 27,000 people are engaged in daily conversations in the Facebook group. Additionally, the group created a website and apparel line to make supporting family farmers and ranchers fun.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Economic Research Service (ERS) has released its latest report on "ACRE Program Payments and Risk Reduction."
The report, which studied the effectiveness of the variables used in ACRE's payment system, found that ACRE is least effective in covering idiosyncratic risks, shortfalls on an individual farm that do not correlate with more widespread losses and more targeted at systematic or statewide risk. The program is most effective when related to the correlation between a farm's revenue variability and variability in state average revenue.
If you work in farming, food service or transportation fields, you may have a greater risk of developing heart disease, diabetes and stroke. According to a Reuters report, a new study links these professions to a set of risk factors called metabolic syndrome that carry a greater risk for the disease.
Those working in health professions, as well as scientists and artists carry low risk for these factors, which include abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, low levels of HDL or "good" cholesterol and high triglycerides. Results of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed that the syndrome, usually diagnosed when someone has three or more conditions, can double a heart attack and stroke risk.
I raise chickens because I like being self-sufficient and enjoy the many benefits of fresh eggs. The eggs from my backyard are fresher than anything I can get in a store, and they're more nutritious, too!It is important to me to know where my food comes from, how it is cared for, and what is in it. My backyard chickens are as free range and organic as I can let them be, eating only things chickens should eat like bugs, worms, whole grains and whatever else they can chase down or scratch out of the earth. Read the full blog on www.poultrytribune.com.
