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		<title>Craft Brewers Hope For a Share of Local Hop Crop</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/11/04/craft-brewers-fight-for-a-share-of-local-hop-crop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I simply wasn&#8217;t prepared for what I saw when Fred Colby, co-owner of Laughing Dog Brewery in Ponderay, pulled open the heavy door to his walk-in cooler. Instead of setting eyes on cases of craft beer, I caught the cold gaze of six very pink pig carcasses. &#8220;Pig beer!&#8221; I blurted out reflexively, in order to suppress what would have been a high-pitched, porcine-like squeal. &#8220;No,&#8221; Colby said, drawing out the word in a calming, cooing way. &#8220;At our annual anniversary party, we barbecue six whole pigs.&#8221; Laughing Dog, it turned out, was on the eve of its sixth anniversary barbecue, and the next day, this large brewery would be filled with friends, fresh beer and the scent of spit-roasted pork. But this day, Colby was more interested in showing me why he believed his North Idaho brewery had become so popular. To the right of the pork six-pack, he grabbed a bag and opened it under my nose. &#8220;The best thing is really stick your nose in there and smell,&#8221; Colby suggested. Suddenly I was flung into a forest after a warm rain. I breathed in deep, earthy aromas, a hint of wildflowers and the slightly bracing bite of pine. &#8220;They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palouse Wheat Farmers Go Against the Grain</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/21/palouse-wheat-farmers-go-against-the-grain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s harvest time on the Palouse, and North Idaho wheat farmer Wayne Jensen has invited me into the air-conditioned cab of his massive combine. A color-coded computer screen shows us exactly how many bushels of grain he&#8217;s harvesting moment-to-moment, while an automatic leveling system keeps the cab true to the horizon even as the rest of the machine tilts against slopes that can pitch up to 50 percent. It feels as if we&#8217;re riding in the coolest off-road lawnmower money can buy. As we sail along, a tractor towing a 785-bushel bankout wagon races to our side. Jensen flips a switch and his load of now-winnowed wheat arcs across a blue autumn sky from combine to wagon in a perfectly composed postcard for industrial agriculture. &#8220;We&#8217;re combining soft white winter wheat,&#8221; Jensen says as his console beeps and flashes and he steers a laser-straight line through golden stands of wheat that will most likely end up in Japan. On average, 80 percent of the wheat harvested in the Palouse region of North Idaho and eastern Washington is shipped overseas. But Wayne Jensen, a third generation Idaho farmer, is trying something new: growing a portion of his crop for local Northwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Coming of Idaho Beer Making</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/08/12/the-second-coming-of-idaho-beer-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Dinius cocked his head to one side, as if trying to slide all the brewery names into a neat row before he spoke. “We’ve got Wallace Brewing from Wallace, Idaho,” he began to a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band accompaniment in the distances.  “We’ve got Payette Brewing from Boise, we’ve got Sun Valley, Van Scheidt out of Twin Falls, Table Rock, The Ram, Portneuf Valley Brewing out of Pocatello and Laughing Dog from Sandpoint.” Including his own, recently opened Crescent Brewery in Nampa, 13 Idaho breweries were dispensing beer at this, the first ever all-Idaho Brewers Festival held on July 8 through 10 at Nampa’s Lakeview Park. “There’s no Bud Light here, there’s no Coors,” Dinius said with a smile. “It’s all Idaho beer, all craft beer.” When I later described this first-of-a-kind, all-Idaho beer fest to Idaho beer historian Herman Ronnenberg, he called it “magical.” For decades, Ronnenberg has researched the Idaho beer industry, he’s written numerous books on the subject from “Beer and Brewing in the Inland Northwest” to “The Beer Baron of Boise.” Not surprisingly, his friends call him “Doctor Beer.” Yet, on the phone from his home in Troy, Ronnenberg seemed truly taken aback by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right to Farm vs. the Public&#8217;s Right to Know</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Alma Hasse walked purposely, head down, toward a red brick building. The Jerome County Courthouse held a mountain of files on the county&#8217;s dairy CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, and Hasse wanted a look at them. She and her agricultural watchdog group, Idaho Concerned Area Residents for the Environment believed that Idaho&#8217;s factory farms weren&#8217;t being adequately monitored or regulated. That&#8217;s why she and a small group of her members burst into the county offices on that dreary December afternoon, requesting to see the CAFO records. But it soon became clear the group wouldn&#8217;t get what it wanted. The office staff, caught off guard and obviously not prepared to respond to that rare and forceful request for files, complied hesitantly, but within minutes Jerome County Commissioner Charlie Howell and County Planner Nancy Marshall arrived and asked the group to give the records back. Faces reddened, voices rose and soon a Jerome County cop arrived, looking as confused as everyone else. Marshall said the county simply didn&#8217;t have an employee available to sit with the group as they pored over files. Hasse&#8217;s daughter, Shavan, demanded that Marshall cite the county code allowing her to withhold the requested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Food Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to get all Dickensian when looking at what’s happening across the agriculture landscape. As the spring growing season begins, there are plenty of examples sprouting that suggest that, in terms of food and farming, we are indeed living in the best of times and, if not the worst of times, some pretty disconcerting ones. First the the best of times. This coming weekend some of Idaho’s 55-and-counting farmers’ markets will set up their stands for the season. Here in the Treasure Valley, the Capital City Public Market in Boise and the Eagle Saturday Market in Eagle will both open on Saturday, April 16th. As I’ll report in the April 20th Boise Weekly and the following Friday’s Edible Idaho radio program on KBSX 91.5, Idaho’s farmers’ markets have more than doubled in number in the last five years. And they’ve added all kinds of new, user friendly features like EBT, social networking, interactive online maps, cooking classes and countless other embellishments to make shopping for fresh, local food easier and more fun. The best single feature of the farmers’ market system, though, is also its oldest: Transparency. That one-on-one, face-to-face contact between grower and eater instantly shortens our often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Superbug” Book – How Agriculture Helped Create Drug Resistant MRSA</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/24/superbug-book-how-agriculture-helped-create-drug-resistant-mrsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversations about agriculture and health, I think the issues raised in the book, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn Mckenna, need to be front and center, especially as it relates to CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) and the use of antibiotics as a growth enhancer in animals. The book explains: Food animals get many drugs for many reasons. They get them for disease treatment. They get them for disease prevention&#8230;.Food animals also get antibiotics for &#8220;growth promotion,&#8221; a metabolic mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming&#8230;.The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that, of those 29.5 million pounds of antimicrobials given to animals every year, only 2 million of them are actually intended to treat disease. The rest, almost 80% of all antibiotics used in the United States every year, are &#8220;non-therapeutic.&#8221; The process makes human-medicine experts furious. From their point of view, farmers are routinely practicing antibiotic misuse: giving drugs in the absence of disease, and giving them in such small doses that they kill off only vulnerable bacteria and leave the Darwinian battleground clear for the tough ones. Making it worse, many of the animal drugs are identical, or closely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Sugar Beet</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/02/18/meet-the-sugar-beet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember seeing them along the roadside. As a kid growing up in rural Idaho, those orphaned gray lumps were a common sight. I even kicked one once, then picked it up, dusted it off and bit into it. That was a mistake. I hadn&#8217;t thought much about sugar beets since, at least until they hit the news as one more of Monsanto&#8217;s contested, genetically modified crops. Like GM alfalfa, GM sugar beets are thought to pose a threat to organic farming by potentially spreading their tinkered-with genetic code via pollen to other crops. Because of that risk, a federal judge banned this spring&#8217;s planting of so-called Roundup Ready sugar beets, a biotech beet modified to withstand Roundup, a Monsanto herbicide that kills weeds but not the genetically immune beet itself. But then,two weeks ago, the United States Department of Agriculture partially lifted that ban prompting environmental groups to file suit and the sugar beet industry to file counter suit. This not-so-sweet courthouse controversy got me thinking. Too often the only time the average eater hears about commodities like sugar beets or alfalfa is when they get tangled in the courts. The botanical fundamentals get lost. Just what the heck is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM Alfalfa Creeps Back into the News</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/28/gm-alfalfa-creeps-back-into-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from Barry Estabrook, former contributing editor at Gourmet magazine and now regular contributor to the the New York Times, the Washington Post, and TheAtlantic.com: &#8220;On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) had approved the unrestricted planting of genetically modified alfalfa sold by Monsanto Co. and Forge Genetics, despite protests from organic groups and public health advocates and comments from nearly 250,000 citizens asking the department to keep this GMO genie in its bottle. With this announcement, the Obama administration showed whose side it is on in the battle between proponents of sustainable, organic agriculture and the big businesses that profit from conventional, chemical agriculture. Big Ag won. It wasn&#8217;t even close.&#8221; Idaho is at the center of this issue.  Here&#8217;s an Edible Idaho interview I did back in 2007 with writer Matt Jenkins, who had recently written a story on the controversy over genetically modified alfalfa for High Country News.  As you&#8217;ll see, genetically modified crops are as contentious today as they were back then. There&#8217;s a drama playing out in an unlikely place: the alfalfa fields of southern Idaho.  It pits farmer against farmer in a struggle that could shape the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Milk Real: The trend toward small dairies</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/21/making-milk-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This was formerly the Smith&#8217;s Dairy,&#8221; says Bill Stoltzfus of the building he bought in 2007, just a block south of Buhl&#8217;s town square. &#8220;The place had been in the Smith family for 70-some years.&#8221; This modest cream-colored bottling plant and the soft-spoken man who now runs it hardly look like players in a new, national agricultural movement. But they are. Stoltzfus, a lifelong dairyman, moved to Idaho in 1992 from Pennsylvania&#8217;s once pastoral dairy country. He still carries a hint of the rural East in his voice and a lasting love of the small dairy farms that dot his home state. &#8220;We do a non-homogenized whole milk, a 2 percent and a low-fat milk,&#8221; Stoltzfus says as he shows me around the pleasantly old-fashioned retail space that fronts his bottling plant. Behind the counter are 24 flavors of homemade ice cream. &#8220;We also are planning on trying to get into some cottage cheese and possibly some yogurt and do our own artisan cheese.&#8221; Most modern dairymen have gone a very different route than Stoltzfus. The Idaho dairy industry has grown explosively in the last decade. Fed in part by factory dairies fleeing more tightly regulated places like California, dairy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Agribusiness Grows, Farmers Get Less and Consumers Pay More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPOKANE: The Globe and Mail had a story last week that caught my attention titled, &#8220;The Fat Cats of Agribusiness.&#8221; The article references growing concerns about large corporations muscling their way into the food chain, but observes that not much is being said among effected nations because they have become so dependent on these mega-corps. There is one report from Siva Makki at the World Bank in 2008 that sounds the alarm. The market share of the biggies is on the rise, leading to questions about the potential abuse of economic power. In 2004, the top four suppliers of agrochemicals had a 60% share of their market, up from 47% in 1997. In the seed market, the four biggest players had a 33% share in 2004, up from 23%. In some specialized sectors, concentration is much higher. Monsanto’s worldwide share of the market for transgenic soybean seeds, which are easy to protect against weeds, was 91% in 2004&#8230; Is the concentration harming or helping farmers? Makki’s research suggests that farmers are getting ripped off. As sales and prices rise, agribusiness giants are capturing a disproportionate share of the profits. Take coffee. The proportion of the retail price received by the main coffee-producing [...]]]></description>
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