This blog is the second in a two-part series on selling farm products through outside distribution channels like food hubs (read the first blog here). The Wallace Center recently released a new report on Maryland Food Hubs. The Wallace Center partnered with SMADC on...
By Priscilla Wentworth and Susan McQuilkin, SMADC Increasingly farmers are up against wildlife management for both crop damage and food safety. As wildlife habitat areas near production fields are being cleared, we are dramatically changing farming landscape. Across...
A 2015 survey of American consumers, commissioned by the International Food Information Council Foundation, reveals that only 61% have confidence in the safety of the U.S. food supply, down from 78% in 2012. The top concern about food safety in the 2015 survey was...
by Greg Bowen and Susan McQuilkin According to The Impact of Agriculture on Maryland’s Economy, published last summer, Maryland’s dairy sector generates over $1 Billion in total annual economic impact, second only to the poultry sector. However, it is...
A farmer from Carroll County noted that there were still 26″ of snow on the ground at his farm, but he still made the trek from Carroll County on Feb. 15 to the Maryland Organic Food & Farming Association’s Winter Meeting. Throughout the day, the skies...
Recently, our minister preached on perfection. Basically, his message was perfection is a noble goal, rarely achieved. I view the pursuit of sustainability much the same way. Worthy of pursuit. Seldom understood. Rarely achieved. A number of companies in the food...
