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The Business Behind the Farm Visit

Modern Farmer

For example, if they sell tickets to a farm dinner and prepare guests food made from the produce harvested on the farm, this can’t exceed 25 percent of their “farm stand” income. But it is OK to call it a “harvest festival featuring a live music performance.” Photography by Topaz Farm) Other issues emerged.

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla. This was a market opportunity of astounding proportions.

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Op-ed: Walmart’s Outsized Catch

Civil Eats

The process is similar today. Those businesses now had to pay for the MSC certification process.” Those businesses now had to pay for the MSC certification process (a cost MSC estimates between $15 to $120,000 in consultant fees ), if they wanted to keep selling to Walmart (as well as an additional 0.5