Daily Archives: May 25, 2012

New Videos Offer Insight Into 2011 Farm Disasters

With payments from crop insurers to farmers approaching the $11 billion mark, 2011 will go down in the record books as one of the most destructive and costliest weather years in history.  A new video series recently launched by National Crop Insurance Services captures the human side of the issue, with testimonials from farmers, a banker,…

Farm Fresh Less Expensive Than Junk Food, Study Finds

For those who have espoused the view that farm policies have made unhealthy food inexpensive and have thus contributed to the over-consumption of junk food, USDA says it’s time to think again. A new study, titled “Are Healthy Foods More Expensive,” found that previous assumptions about junk food being less expensive were based on a biased…