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Which Issues Matter to You?
Aug 12 2011
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Roots of Change
Could you take a few minutes to tell us what food and farming issues you care most about?
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Where do you live question
You need another option--while I live within the city limits of one of the largest cities in the country, I'm actually in a somewhat rural area. Kind of a combo of suburban/rural. So I answered I don't know.
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This was not addressed in the survey, but I feel that genetically modified crops and the current pro-GMO US legislation pose a large and serious environmental, economic and public health issue for both farmers and consumers.
Where is the survey?
Not seeing a survey, just comments.
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food safety regulation
My thoughts on this were not offered as a choice. I'm concerned these laws are being used to harass small farmers. I'm also concerned with the raids on the raw foods coops, raw milk producers and organic buying coops.
Beginning Farmer Entry and Development
It is estimated that 70% of all US farms will change hands within the next 20 years (Parsons, Rhuf, et al., 2010). Assuring that we have the capacity to facilitate new farmer entry, and that we encourage the use of sustainable farming practices on these farms, is key to national security, economic growth, and environmental protection.
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I agree wholeheartedly with Anonymous Comment #1.
Preaching to the choir!!!
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What will be the outcomes of your survey results? I agree that you are preaching to the choir. Perhaps your survey should focus on how your loyal followers can assist in your efforts (?).
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Does not give me the questions- ??????
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I feel you are preaching to the choir here and it seems like a waste of my time and yours. You have my address because I share your vision. Just go with it.
ps- I went neutral when I thought the gov would probably fuck up any regulation you mentioned, a possibility you didn't allow for which negates the validity of limited concept questionares like this.
Big farms & ranches are more harmful then good for the food!
Large operations need to be broken up, smaller operations would be more managable and hirer more workers.
Big Farm and Ranches
Anyone that makes a blanket statement about any group such as the statement that big farms and ranches need to be broken up is just plain wrong.
Many large farm and ranches are doing a wonderful thing in helping nature with GMP's
(General Managment Practices). Large farms and ranches are light years ahead of goverment owned lands. The government puts land in conservation programs and never touches it thereafter. Here in Florida the government is the largest land owner that I know of. The only public access to most of the Government land is by foot or horse. There are not many households that include horses.
Invasive plant species and animals go totaly unchecked on most of the government lands. Large farms and ranches monitor these issues and address them at their expense.
There is nothing government does well. Nothing except waste money.
Anyone that suggest that large operations should be broken up is totally socialist. Why would you suggest that smaller is more managable and then suggest smaller would hire more workers. You sound like a socialist union member. The whole primise of better managment is to do more with less.
Why is it that the small farmer or wantabe farmer insist on kicking the big farmer or rancher at every twist and turn. If small farming is the best way to go it will be successful on its own merrits not because you degrade a way of life that you have not been able to obtain. Most large farms started as small farms and improved on their system of farming and grew over time. I too am a small farmer. I started with 20 acres and I now have 30 acres and I provide an income for 4 families and myself. I don't need to make blanket critisims of others because they have done a better job than myself. Yes there are some practices that big farms need to change and they will with guidance and time. They are not all bad business. Some may be bad for the enviroment and need correction but not all. We can work together and all win. But we don't need to harm one another in the process. Jim the small farmer.
lg farms
Jim the small farmer has a great point. I am personally aware of an Agriculturalist that is attempting to assist large farms on the East Coast to reformulate their plan from mono-cropping to grass farming their dairy operations. They are presently in transition from purchasing to producing much of their forage, returning to Organic, away from subsidised which allows for a greater profitability. The criticism of large farms (1000's of acres), it appears to me, is of the large mono-cultures that create barren or reduced fertility soils that subsquently require increased chemical inputs to maintain production levels.
As long as the US is a corn/wheat/soy economy, heavy emphasis on corn, we will see aggressive monoculture --which all agriculturalists know is inherently bad.
traditional survey
hello,
i would have completed the survey had i not been redirected to another site to which i had divulge my information to
that i did not appreciate
had you had a fill in the blank as this form is set up, i would have completed the survey without hesitation
please take this comment into consideration
also, the main issue i am interested in is raw milk, small farm share, direct sales from farm to consumer legislative action
thank you