A merger in name only
Bangor Daily News - 9/28/2012. By George Smith, George’s Outdoor News – Maine’s Department of Agriculture merged with the Department of Conservation on August 30, a date established in law by the legislature and governor. But the only thing merged was the name. It’s now the Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry. No one moved. No programs merged. No money was saved. |
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Organic Garden
Bangor Daily News - 9/27/2012. Editorial cartoon by George Danby – Adam and Eve Update |
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Fires in the field
The Contrary Farmer - 9/27/2012. By Gene Logsdon – If you want to see the landscape of hell painted prettily on a farmland horizon, watch a field of corn on fire. It is hellish enough, in my view, to see corn fields stretching away in every direction from sea to shining sea with no houses, barns, trees, fences, grazing animals or any other sign of human habitation in sight. But when a curtain of fire is rushing across this land of the free and home of the brave, the effect is terrifying. |
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USDA Oks tofu as a meat substitute in school lunches
Grist - 9/27/2012. By Philip Bump – School lunches can now offer tofu as a “meat alternate,” thanks to a little-noticed announcement from the Department of Agriculture in January. If you’re looking for it in the government code, it’s at “7 C.F.R. 210.10(c)(2)(i)(D) of the regulatory text for the NSLP,” so just flip on over to that sub-sub-sub-sub-subsection. |
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