Jeremy Bernfeld
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Every year on my birthday I know there’s a thin, flat package waiting for me to open. It’s wrapped with neat corner folds and held together perfectly with…
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Powerful chemicals used by many farmers to ward off insects are making their way into Midwest rivers and streams, according to a study by the U.S.…
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The “who” part of the Farm Bill is pretty clear.With trillions dollars of government spending up for grabs, lobbyists from all ends of the spectrum –…
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With the world’s population exploding, we’ll have many more mouths to feed in the near future. But agriculture already uses up tons of resources and land.…
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Farm stands and farmers markets remain really important for many local farmers, but U.S. consumers barely buy any food directly from farms. That’s why…
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Vermont is poised to become the first state to enact mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms.The Vermont legislation comes…
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Food doesn’t just come from a grocery store. Millions of farmers spend their lives producing the crops and raising the livestock that we eat and use.So it…
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The latest salvo in the PR battle between the anti-conventional farming crowd and "Big Ag" doesn’t come on the floor of a state legislature and it doesn’t…
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The U.S. Senate passed the farm bill Tuesday by a vote of 68-32, sending it to the president’s desk and ending years of political wrangling.The…
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The House on Wednesday approved a five-year compromise farm, signalling perhaps the final stretch for a two-year legislative battle. Because so much of the spending in the measure depends on enrollment in programs like food stamps, it's hard to know if it will save taxpayers money.