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Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again. Will It Scale Up?

Civil Eats

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.”

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Power, Profit, and Diversified Farming

ATTRA

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. I remember a warm summer day, the sun casting shadows of cornstalks on freshly tilled humic soil. Take a look at the resources I’ve listed below and ask yourself, “What else can we do?” Tell me your thoughts at lee@ncat.org.

Farming 40