Comments for Modern Farmer https://modernfarmer.com/ Farm. Food. Life. Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:07:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Comment on How Two Committed Conservationists Revitalized a River With Beer by infinite craft https://modernfarmer.com/2024/03/how-conservationists-revitalized-a-river-with-beer/#comment-73395 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:07:35 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152156#comment-73395 It’s a form of leisure not limited to the younger generation but embraced by people of all ages.

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Comment on Can You Trust the Organic Food Label? by Brian Adamz https://modernfarmer.com/2023/10/can-you-trust-organic-label/#comment-73384 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:45:31 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=150575#comment-73384 In reply to John Strauss.

I am a purchasing Manager trying to vet companies Globally for Organic Chicken and Pork. EU, USA, Brazil, Asia. I have seen most seeking customers as Halal trying to appear as Organic. This is a huge issue when this group is trying to outsmart society as a new authority in the world.
I have over two years looked at all the large companies such as Tyson, and others in the news for defrauding the system. Their fines were huge in my eyes but in theirs, it was not as hurtful when they do billions in earnings per year.
In reading these articles, it is clear that many are turning away from believing authorities as they can’t keep up with the scammers. I am sick of paying the huge price for food!
We are seeking to purchase Container loads. Our founder wants to make sure they are Organic. My job has just become a nightmare. I truly feel for the good farmers who are honest as the world is full of dishonesty today. It is a problem when we need huge quantities and the ones you would like to deal with are smaller family farms that can’t afford to deal with international orders.
May God be with us as this war increases. I am speaking personally so I won’t be giving the company name or email.

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Comment on 7 Perennial Herbs to Plant Now by Emilie Allen https://modernfarmer.com/2018/02/perennial-herbs/#comment-73363 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:45:31 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=60792#comment-73363 In reply to Lynnette Green.

Lynnette Green, Miners lettuce was an interesting plant I found flourishing after spring sprung! Tasted like pea pods! Its harvest time is a very short window! The original owner did have an edible yard! Passion fruit vine, fig tree, purple flowers popping right after the Daffodils die. Tulips full bloom on Easter morning. Loved that old town Medford, Or

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Comment on Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution by ERICSON AP. MARINO https://modernfarmer.com/2024/04/biogas-mega-dairies-problem/#comment-73361 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:57:16 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152596#comment-73361 It is incredible how a person could write these sort of wrong information. Two hypothesis: he has a very poor intellectual formation or he is inducted by persons that have other interests.

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Comment on Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution by Amy Housman https://modernfarmer.com/2024/04/biogas-mega-dairies-problem/#comment-73338 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:00:34 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152596#comment-73338 The push to move away from CAFOs for dairy overlooks the most important piece driving this. Consumers must be willing to pay more for milk and animal products. Large scale agriculture exists because it makes production more affordable for the farmer and at a price point consumers are willing (and able) to pay. Small dairies are barely hanging on based on the price of production and the price the federal marketing order pays for them. Additionally, large scale dairy exists in the Central Valley exists because the land was open and affordable when dairies were pushed out of areas like Chino and Sonoma County because people wanted to live where the dairies are.

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Comment on Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution by Marti Olesen https://modernfarmer.com/2024/04/biogas-mega-dairies-problem/#comment-73334 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:37:10 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152596#comment-73334 Thank you for this well researched article. Waste treatment from such large populations of concentrated animals should be held to the same standards as those required for human waste treatment. Fields are already saturated with excess waste spread from such facilities, beyond what is agronomically needed as fertilizer. Our drinking water and recreational waters are plagued with harmful algal blooms (HABs) from the phosphorus runoff. Research this issue for yourself. Greenwashing CAFOs and using taxpayer dollars for the construction of these biogas projects must be stopped.

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Comment on How to Grow Cannabis In Your Garden by thabang https://modernfarmer.com/2018/08/how-to-grow-cannabis-in-your-garden/#comment-73331 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:31:47 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=63324#comment-73331 i want to open my own canabi firm

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Comment on Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution by Ray https://modernfarmer.com/2024/04/biogas-mega-dairies-problem/#comment-73318 Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:19:20 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152596#comment-73318 In reply to Bee.

Small dairies can transport their lagoon slurry to Biodigester sites. Inciting mega farms isn’t legitimate rebuttal.
Green extremists aren’t interested in development, they desire Aggressive Regressive depopulation anyway they can manipulate concerns for the planetary ecosystem is merely a narrative means to their Zero Population Growth and Reduction of humans down to their Optimum Maximum Population Density Target.
Which are massive elimination numbers.

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Comment on Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution by Edward Clerico https://modernfarmer.com/2024/04/biogas-mega-dairies-problem/#comment-73311 Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:52:49 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152596#comment-73311 This article is very misleading and it wrongfully reports that the environmental impact of anaerobic digestion (AD) is similar to burning fossil fuels, when in fact it is a viable form of renewable energy. AD has been utilized for over 100 years as a way of producing energy from a wide range of biological wastes, and is commonly used in municipal wastewater treatment. This article would have been more useful if it explained the pros and cons of AD and how it could help family farms compete with CAFO’s.

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Comment on Biogas From Mega-Dairies Is a Problem, Not a Solution by marty shrader https://modernfarmer.com/2024/04/biogas-mega-dairies-problem/#comment-73309 Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:57:38 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=152596#comment-73309 Biogas is a solution. It would be wise to remember before whites even arrived that bison which are also ruminants numbered as high as 93 million. Many of those herds would have dwarfed the so called ‘CAFO’. This article seems like a hit on common sense.

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