Idaho-the Corn State & Beginning Farmer/Rancher Program
Idaho-the Corn State & Beginning Farmer/Rancher Program plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
The USDA has announced that they are sinking millions into providing training and assistance to beginning farmers and ranchers to help them run successful and sustainable farms. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan.
MERRIGAN: The request for proposals for the next round of funding is already out there. It went out last week. So if people are interested in applying for money under this NIFA program, the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, they can look on the NIFA website and the deadline for submission of proposals is just a few days shy of Thanksgiving.
Everyone knows that Idaho is famous for their potatoes...right? Well get ready for a shock. According to the latest National Agricultural Statistics Service numbers Idaho now grows more corn than potatoes. You heard right. The National Agricultural Statistics Service shows that Idaho corn planted for all purposes totaled 390,000 acres. That's a jump of almost 22 percent compared to last year. Growers in Idaho say the majority of the corn produced here is used as animal feed, mostly for dairies.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
It’s glaringly obvious that the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine not only have less than ten percent of actual physicians on their committee, they’re somewhat lacking in legal counsel as well. Why else would they choose to put up a billboard in the Dairy State of Wisconsin featuring the Grim Reaper wearing one of the popular foam cheesehead hats, insinuating that cheese kills. To say the PCFRM has a provocative history of trying to force their vegetarian food agenda on the masses would be putting it mildly. This is the same group that declares serving meat or dairy products to children should be considered child abuse. This time though their “creative” use of advertising found them on the opposite side of a legal battle than they’re used to. Foamation, the company that created and makes Cheesehead hats was not happy that PCFRM is using their product to say cheese is bad for you, and threatened to take the group to court over it for copyright infringement. PCFRM has also asked the mayor of Green Bay to put warning labels on all cheese products sold at the stadium. Needless to say that went over like moldy cheese.
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
