Farmer Goes to Market: Reconnecting Nebraska's grocers and farmers
KATHY'S COMMENTARY
Take a look back at these top stories of 2017,
and then check out all our past stories online 
Kathy's commentary: Here to help you counter food misinformation
I hope you enjoy the new year by taking a look back through these top six stories of 2017. If you like those, you'll love the entire catalog of every past Farmer Goes to Market story, available by clicking here.
May you all enjoy a happy and prosperous 2018.
Kathy Siefken
Executive Director
Nebraska Grocery Industry Association
    

TRANSLATING FOOD TECHNOLOGY
How social media scrambled the egg health message
It was yet another scrambled-up Internet health theory that never dies: How your shoppers cook their eggs could be killing them. Farmer Goes to Market's regular monitoring of social-media health punditry descrambled the message for you. You won't believe how far off they were.
NAVIGATING THE NEW FOOD MOVEMENT
Organic: All about the snob appeal?
Was organic destined to become the season's new designer label? These researchers thought so, arguing eco- and health-conscious food shoppers may be attracted to it for other than health purposes. Farmer Goes to Market brought you some of the implications for the grocer when eating like the common folk becomes the new luxury.
NAVIGATING THE NEW FOOD MOVEMENT
Is healthy eating quietly killing us?
A 2017 report of a Belgian couple scheduled to face a judge for inadvertently starving their infant by feeding him a nutritionally insufficient vegan diet was tragic, but not isolated. Farmer Goes to Market picked up on the dirty little secret behind today's fashionable diets: They might be bringing back some old diseases society thought it had beaten. Here's the story nobody else was reporting. 
NAVIGATING THE NEW FOOD MOVEMENT
What was really going on with chicken meat quality?
Social media erupted last year with "reports" of "new research" showing modern chicken was suddenly afflicted with several conditions that cause the meat to be tougher, more fatty and even less healthy. But were your shoppers really getting the whole story? We looked behind the headlines.
NAVIGATING THE NEW FOOD MOVEMENT
Seriously? You want me to buy what?
Every day, it seemed, 2017 brought yet another report of a new fake food. But the underlying problem may have been worse than you could have imagined. Farmer Goes to Market asked the hard question: Were grocers putting themselves at risk of accidentally purveying fake food? 
MEET YOUR FARMERS
Nebraska hops farmers created a new local market
The Cornhusker State's burgeoning craft beer movement spawned a new crop interest among some Nebraska farmers in 2017: Hops. Here's another look at how one new local industry supported another.   
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