Yes it is. Corn needs to go through a process to become HFCS. A whole lot of people think this is a bad thing. I have a question for those people. Where do you think “natural” sugar comes from? I’m assuming when many use the term natural they are referring to nice, white table sugar […]
Category: #AgChat
Yesterday I was reviewing my blog statistics and found something interesting. One of the links bringing people in to my Occupy the Food Supply post was coming from NPR’s “Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers’ Case Against Monsanto“. I could not remember commenting on an NPR post or even reading one lately. As it turns out someone left […]
Things finally dried out enough to get some work done outside. Winter has basically skipped us as far as snow and freezing weather, but it’s been wet and the ground never froze hard. Last spring we had a little sink hole in this field, and today we finally got a chance to investigate it. Turns […]
Today is the day. The Occupy movement is going to occupy our food supply. According to the occupiers and Farm Aid president Willie Nelson large corporations have too much control over our food. I won’t deny that there has been a lot of consolidation in the food and seed markets over the years, but that […]
Food versus Fuel is a phrase that’s heard a lot when talking about ethanol generated from corn. I’m not going to rehash that whole debate here because I’ve covered it in other posts, but basically know that corn made in to ethanol also produces animal feed in the process. When you hear that upwards of […]