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Whole Foods Does 180 on Farm Flooding

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Much better than I, Samuel Fromartz at the Chews Wise blog has reported comprehensively on the disastrous flooding of organic farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin and how Whole Foods has acknowledged acting too quickly when it cancelled orders for produce from the afflicted areas. Whole foods initially placed an embargo on produce from the flooded […]

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Can You Say "Flood Insurance"?

September 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Here’s a sobering look at the devastation visited upon organic farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin by this summer’s historic floods. Note that organic farmers favor the bottom lands, where soil is richer but the risk of getting washed out is highest. Most of these farmers did not have flood insurance, and a lot of that […]

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