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Farmland Preservation Conference
I’m a Postin’ Fool today. There was so much to share that concerns local food in my emails. I’ve had good visits with the Madison County Chamber of Commerce, Brian Williams and a number of other movers and shakers. Many of whom will be at this event. Check it out. SAVE THE DATE – 10th Annual Ohio Farmland Preservation Summit – 11/5/9 http://cffpi.osu.edu/summit09.htm On November 5, 2009, the tenth annual Ohio Farmland Preservation Summit will take place at the new Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center on the Ohio State University campus. For this landmark anniversary, we offer exciting and information-packed breakout sessions to inform and invigorate. There will also be exhibition space and a fresh produce market in the afternoon. To help us celebrate a decade of … Read entire article »
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Chicken Wars
How much chicken could a chicken shop sell if a chicken shop could sell chicken? Good questions if you could swallow it with out choking. The chicken industry is all choked up. Let me tell you about it. If you want to sell chicken in this town you either have to buy a farm in a different county. Or drive over a hundred miles to the Indiana border to process it at the only open to the public chicken processing plant. Those doing it are selling their chicken for 3 to 4 dollars a pound. And! There is a market. Now if you were amish then you and your neighbors would work together to do it. There are over 100 of these farms selling free range chicken in the state. … Read entire article »
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