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Healthy environments lead to healthy food

SPENCER — Healthier environments for food production produce healthier foods for consumers. This was the word from Nikki Putnam Badding, registered dietician and director of human nutrition initiatives at Alltech, an agri-food multinational. Putnam Badding is also the managing director of Acutia, a human health and wellness subsidiary of Alltech. Putnam Badding said the World Health Organization has pinpointed poor nutrition as the single greatest threat to world health, including in the U.S. She said the world population is projected to reach 10 billion by 2060, which she said ...

Are today's newspapers still relevant?

Bourbon, beer, and barbecue are among my favorite things that begin with the letter “b.” It was only natural that I felt compelled to attend the Bourbon, Beer, and Barbecue tasting event held ...

Columns

The growing disconnect between hard numbers, soft policy

Like much of the news anymore, the initial numbers from the 2022 Census of Agriculture were accurately reported, quickly downplayed — or even worse, ignored — by most Big Ag groups, and then just pushed aside by the rush of the next day’s news. That’s a mistake — because the ...

Farm Cooks

Mix it up

Waldorf Salad It has been said that this salad originated more than 100 years ago at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City. Over the years, this salad has changed somewhat as far as the ingredients people like to add to the recipe — such things as grapes and nuts, and whipped cream. This ...

Editorials

Is your family farm eligible?

For those area families who have a long, proud history of farming the land, it is not too early to think about the 2024 Century Farm and Heritage Farm awards. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging eligible farm owners to apply for the 2024 Century and Heritage Farm Program. ...