Ag Speedlinking: 02.25.08

Small food, farm business provide healthy future for Iowa

An op-ed piece from the Des Moines Register by my friend and mentor Penny Brown Huber, executive director of the Grow Your Small Market Farm program.

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Farm program aids immigrants

"According to the statistics, refugees and immigrants also comprise the largest and fastest growing population entering the field of farming today."

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Speaker at organic farming conference derides corporate agriculture

"“Do we treat anything that we truly care about primarily on an efficiency basis?” [Andrew Kimbrell] asked."

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