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Agriculture
4:00 pm
Wed January 23, 2013

Farm bill extension doesn’t sit well with many organic farmers

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Liz Graznak, who runs Happy Hollow Farm in Jamestown, Mo., is one of many farmers who may not re-certify her operation organic without federal support.
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Shoppers looking for organic food may have to look a bit harder this year.

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Agriculture
10:57 am
Thu December 13, 2012

Making the case for local, fresh (if not organic) foods

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Tammy Sellmeyer in one of the hoop houses of her Fulton, Mo. farm.
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Tammy Sellmeyer bends to pick up a strawberry in the middle of a hoop house on the 25-acre farm she owns and operates with her husband, Greg, just south of Fulton, Mo. The Sellmeyers plant some 3,000 strawberry plants here each year and sell them at the Columbia, Mo. farmers market. This past May, they sold 400 quarts in just three hours. But two years ago, they didn't have many berries to sell at all because pests got to their crop.

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Agriculture
11:18 am
Thu December 6, 2012

Can you make any money raising organic beef in Missouri? [infographic]

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In Tebbetts, Mo., JJR Family Farm raised USDA-certified organic livestock without antibiotics or genetically-modified feed.  After six years of raising and selling organic beef, they decided it was just too expensive to keep the certification.  Rancher John Rice helped us figure out just how much it costs to raise organic beef in Missouri.  

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Agriculture
10:15 am
Thu December 6, 2012

How much is organic certification worth?

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Schnuck’s produce manager Dave Guthrie says the store only carried two kinds of this organicgirl product back in 1995. Now, due to customer demand, they carry eight varieties of the organic Salinas County, Calif. greens.
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Schnuck’s produce manager Dave Guthrie unpacks potatoes in the grocery’s Columbia, Mo., store produce department.
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Rancher John Rice, who owns JJR Family Farm, feeds a non-organic square bale of hay to his Charolais and Limousin cows.
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The JJR Family Farm cows still enjoy many of the benefits of being raised organically – like grazing in open pasture – but they are not certified organic.
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– Joanna and Eric Reuter weed one of their certified organic fields at Chert Hollow Farm just north of Columbia, Mo.
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Chert Hollow Farm’s four dairy goats dig into some certified organic lettuce heads.
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The organic farming industry is booming. Since the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its federal organic certification program in 2002, the number of organic farms has more than doubled. U.S. organic food sales have also grown from $1 billion in 1990 to $31.5 billion in 2011, according to the Organic Trade Association.  

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