July – August 2013 Rural Papers
1) Women Supporting Women: Women Only Tour Focus on Conservation and Farming Practices, by Mary Fund
2) KRC Launches Three-Year Farm to Fork Initiative
3) Where Food and Farming Meet, by Julie Mettenburg
4) KRC Launches New Website
5) Farm and Food Policy: Deja Vu for a Farm Bill Again This September, by Mary Fund
6) SNAP and Food Stamps – Why all the fuss about dividing it from the farm bill?
7) Federal Food Safety Comment Period Extended
8) Outside Voices Weigh In Re-draft of Cottage Food Regulations, by Cole Cottin
9) Feeding Hungry Kansas: Our State’s Rising “Food Hub Movement”, by Cole Cottin
10) Finding Your Niche: A Marketing Guide for Kansas Farms now available on KRC’s website
11) KS Corporate Farm Law to Undergo Judicial Review
12) Thank you to “retiring” staff, Dale Kirkham and Mary Howell
13) Women Supporting Women: Tour Focuses on Women’s Info Needs, by Jamie Dysart
14) New Statewide Farm-to-Fork Hub to Support the Growth of Kansas Ag, by Cole Cottin
15) Briefs:
– Farm Subsidies Lead to More Water Use
– USDA Conservation Program Enrollment at 25-Year Low
– Cover Crops Boosted Soybean and Corn Yields in 2012 Drought
– Pesticide Use Spikes in Midwest
16) On Fishing and the Federal Reserve, by Mary Fund