By MARY HOWELL Kansas Farmers Union has been awarded a fourth FSMA food safety grant to offer produce safety education to specialty crop growers. We’re working with diverse grower populations to enhance their knowledge of food safety and on-farm good agricultural practices and educate them on FSMA Produce Safety Rule. This funding will [...]
By Mercedes Taylor-Puckett Kansas Farmers Union and the Farmer Veteran Coalition of Kansas offered new and aspiring farmers an opportunity to visit nine Kansas and Missouri farms and learn from educators, producers and other experts about topics ranging from on farm food safety to business planning.The Summer Fun Farm Tour Series ran every other Monday [...]
See ALL the Photos . . . Click over to the Summer Fun Farm Tour Series DAY ONE Album on flickr to see more than 25 of Tom Parker's beautiful photographs from our tour stops at: Green Dirt Farm, KC Cattle Company, and April Valley Farms. ‘Critter Day’ highlighted opportunities [...]
See ALL the Photos . . . Click over to the Summer Fun Farm Tour Series DAY TWO Album on flickr to see more than 25 of Tom Parker's beautiful photographs from our tour stops at: JET Produce, Greater than U Farm, and Cal Ann Farm. The ‘Growing Undercover Day’ [...]
See ALL the Photos . . . Click over to the Summer Fun Farm Tour Series DAY THREE Album on flickr to see more than 50 of Tom Parker's beautiful photographs from our tour stops at: Z&M Twisted Vines Wines and Winery, Schwinn Produce Farm and Barn, and Oregon Trail [...]
By Mercedes Taylor-Puckett Kansas Farmers Union and the Farmer Veteran Coalition of Kansas are offering new and aspiring farmers an opportunity to visit nine Kansas and Missouri farms and learn from educators, producers and other experts about topics ranging from on farm food safety to business planning. The Summer Fun Farm Tour Series [...]
By Tom Parker “Peaches,” Tom Brown said. “For five years I asked hundreds and hundreds of people in the Wichita area about what kinds of produce they would pay a premium for, and, I’m serious, I think 99 percent of them said fresh peaches.” That’s because a fresh-picked, straight-off-the-tree peach is a succulent [...]
By Tom Parker “Peaches,” Tom Brown said. “For five years I asked hundreds and hundreds of people in the Wichita area about what kinds of produce they would pay a premium for, and, I’m serious, I think 99 percent of them said fresh peaches.” That’s because a fresh-picked, straight-off-the-tree peach is a succulent [...]
By TOM PARKER Like most farmers, Tom Brown, co-owner of Meadowlark Farm outside of Wichita, takes a dim view of what he considers unnecessary government regulations meddling in his operation. One such piece of legislation is the Produce Safety Rule—the first mandatory federal standard for growing, harvesting, packing and holding of fresh produce. Published [...]
By Tom Parker Like most farmers, Tom Brown, co-owner of Meadowlark Farm outside of Wichita, takes a dim view of what he considers unnecessary government regulations meddling in his operation. One such piece of legislation is the Produce Safety Rule-the first mandatory federal standard for growing, harvesting, packing and holding of fresh produce. Published in [...]
