Gestation crates, egg prices
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This month, Farmer Goes to Market returns to answer some pressing reader questions on gestation crates in pork, and covers the potential impact of California's new hen-housing restrictions on the price of eggs throughout the country.
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TRANSLATING FOOD TECHNOLOGY Reader Q&A on gestation crates
Behind this month's marketing stunt in which Chipotle restaurants fired a pork farmer for housing female pigs in individual crates, readers continued to ask several questions about this contentious practice. Here's some answers.
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NAVIGATING THE NEW FOOD MOVEMENT Is Clay Center the center of ag's evils?
Standing on the shoulders of a stinging New York Times "expose" of Clay Center's Meat Animal Research Center, the Times editorializes against the evils of modern animal ag research. Here's what the controversy really means.
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COMPETITIVE COMMODITY INFORMATION What California did to egg prices
Egg prices jumped a dollar or more a dozen in late 2014, as the food-chain used market price to express uncertainty about what new animal-welfare regulations in California will mean to the longterm production cost of this dairy-case staple.
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FORESIGHT ON FOOD POLITICS COOL settled? Don't count on it
As a federal appeals court dismisses the latest round of litigation brought by U.S. meat interests against the Country of Origin Labeling regulation, does this signal the end of controversy?
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MEET YOUR FARMERS A century of family farming
First deeded in 1891, Madison's Neidig family farm has been recognized as a Pioneer Farm, a Nebraska farm that has been owned and farmed by the same family for 100 years. Check out their video story.
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE The happy side of Valentine's stalking
They sing well, but are ambush serenades really a good idea in a state where one in 53 people has a permit to carry a concealed weapon?
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Mark your Calendars for these events: March 3-5 | FMI Annual Business Conference, Dallas, TX | March 9-12 | FMI Asset Protection Conference, Jacksonville, FL | March 10 | FMI Sustainability Imperative | April 30 - May 1 | Washington Public Policy Conference |
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