Demand For Locally Raised Meat Increases In Maine
Foraging for insects, tender roots and other delicacies in a 4-acre pasture, a passel of Berkshire and Tamworth hogs are happy — at least as happy as pigs in mud can be. …
Month: August 2015
Ireland's Slaney Foods Gets US Beef Exporter License
Another Irish beef processor has been granted a US export licence. The Slaney Foods processing facility in Co Wexford has become the third Irish plant to gain access to the US market following the lifting of the ban on Irish beef imports earlier this year. …
Consumer Reports: Superbugs Twice As Likely In Conventional Ground Beef
In Consumer Reports new tests of ground beef, 18 percent of the beef samples from conventionally-raised cows contained dangerous superbugs resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics used to treat illness in humans compared with just 9 percent of beef from samples that were sustainably produced. …
Bevo Farms' Jack Benne Has A Gift For Growing Plants
Jack Benne’s dream of supplying top quality plants to the horticulture industry almost didn’t become a reality. …
Sunshine Plants For The Sunshine State
Luckily for Florida gardeners, several Florida native plants are particularly well adapted to heat and able to withstand drought. …
