Local Food

  • Local farmers want to find customers outside of the usual farmers markets and farm stands.
    Local farmers want to find customers outside of the usual farmers markets and farm stands.
    Jeremy Bernfeld / Harvest Public Media

The market for food produced by local farms is growing. 

Sales of food direct from farm to consumers total more than $5 billion annually and there were nearly 150,000 local farmers in the U.S. at last count.

Today, local food systems are a small, but growing and important part of our food system. 

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Increasingly, Holstein Beef Is What's For Dinner

By • Dec 16, 2012

When I dig into a burger, I might think about how the cow the beef came from was raised -- whether it was grass or grain fed, locally raised or imported -- but rarely do I consider what breed of cow the meat came from.

If I did, I'd guess that it was beef from a Black Angus, Hereford or Charolais cow, which are the three most popular breeds used for meat production in the U.S. But that notion got turned on its head at this year’s Missouri Cattlemen’s Association’s convention in Columbia, Mo.

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