Category Archives: Food Economics

  1. Don Curlee: Blind leadership frustrates farmers, red-baiting 1950s style the answer

    Visalia Times-Delta columnist joins in the Red Bating fad  as though that will solve anything
    Farmers have no monopoly on honesty, because that character trait is rooted in the country’s founding principles. But those roots have grown strong and deep in agriculture. Farmers are wondering why honesty doesn’t have a higher priority among political representatives.
    If Marxism [...]

  2. More-Cities-Seeing-at-Least-15-Percent-Unemployment: Personal Finance News from Yahoo Finance

    Porterville has the 5th highest unemployment  level in the US in march among 310 population areas.
    13 of the top 18   areas are in California, including a nearly unbroken chain of population centers between north of the  Grapevine  to Sacramento,  and then north of Sacramento well into Oregon.

    Cities With Jobless Rates of 15% or More

    Metro Area
    State
    March [...]

  3. Setton Farms Pistachio Recall: Aggregated on the Web

    In a previous post I described a breaking story – the recall of Setton Farms of Terra Bella entire 2008 crop of pistachios sold into both the wholesale and retail channel.
    Below are news and blog entries describing the issue that have come in via google alerts today.

  4. Terra Bella, Pistachios, Google and Your Health

    Today on a lark I decided to set up a google alert on some of the local town names that I didn’t already have one set up for. When you do this, google will send you an email of new sites and blogs that match the term you specify.
    Little did I know that news was [...]

  5. Water conservation in California needs to begin down on the farm « Jim Gogek

    Former editorial writer Jim Gogek blogs:
    Don’t get me wrong, California’s rural-based agriculture is very important. The Golden State is the nation’s breadbasket. But California’s urban-based manufacturing is even more important. In 2006, the California gross domestic product for crop and animal production was $15 billion. For manufacturing, it was $172 billion. California needs all of [...]

  6. Snapshot Statistic #1-7: A Peek at The Scale of the Food Industry

    From: Taxing the Rich—Foods, That Is – BusinessWeek.
    Late last year, New York Governor David A. Paterson proposed an 18% sales tax on non-diet soda and sugary juice drinks for the fiscal year starting in April. Such a tax, he says, would raise $404 million this year and $539 million in 2010, to be used for [...]

  7. Food Channels: In the News

    Vilsack calls for stricter food labels
    The labeling requirements, which would apply to fresh meats and some perishable fruits and vegetables, long have been debated in Congress and were enacted as part of a wide-ranging farm bill last year. While the meat industry and retailers responsible for the labels have protested the changes — saying they [...]