Tag: food

What is Waxy Corn?

Waxy corn ear via thefarmerslife.com

We raise both dent and waxy corn on our farm.  Whenever I mention waxy someone inevitably asks me, “What is waxy corn?”  Even other corn growers tend to ask because it is not a large part of the overall corn market.  Here in Indiana there are several markets for waxy corn. What makes it waxy? […]

Long-Term Glyphosate Use Effect on Wheat

Wheat and Glyphosate

Critics of conventional farming often decry the use of herbicides.  Especially glyphosate.  That’s all fine and dandy, but the problem I see with the arguments some people present is they contain no substance.  Take a look at a facebook post on the Kellogg’s Facebook page that I shared to my blog page to get other’s response on. […]

Ramblings on GMO Food Labels

There has been a lot of talk about whether or not food suppliers should be required to label foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). Consumer demand for this type of labeling seems to be growing along with an increased interest in learning how food gets from farm to table. The heated debate over so-called […]

#BSLabels Roundup

Hopefully you already caught on yesterday, but if you didn’t let me get you up to speed.  A few ag bloggers including me got together a few weeks ago and decided to put up some posts about labels that seem unnecessary or misleading to consumers.  The whole thing got started when my original post about peanut […]