Month: January 2016

AP: Consumers won’t know meat origin after US ends labeling law

Consumers won’t know meat origin after US ends labeling law Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Jan. 4, 2016, 3:58 AM syndication.ap.org In this photo taken May 19, 2015, meat labels are seen at a grocery store in Washington. It’s now harder to find out where your meat was born, raised and slaughtered. After more than…



State’s Fiscal Crisis Will Hit Rural Kansas Hardest — Brownback’s March of Folly!

Media Contact: Mercedes Taylor-Puckett 785.840.6202 kfu.mercedes State’s Fiscal Crisis Will Hit Rural Kansas Hardest Duane Goossen, former Kansas Budget Director, offers warnings at Kansas Farmers Union State Convention. By Tom Parker MCPHERSON KS, December 31 – Kansas governor Sam Brownback’s fiscal experiment has brought so many unprecedented changes and impacts to the state budget that…



What Nobody Told Me About Small Farming: I Can’t Make a Living

What Nobody Told Me About Small Farming: I Can’t Make a Living People say we’re "rich in other ways," but that doesn’t fix the ugly fact that most farms are unsustainable. By Jaclyn Moyer / Salon January 1, 2016 organic food background Vegetables in the basket Photo Credit: Aleksandra Zaitseva On the radio this morning…