The Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society’s Winter Conference is in full swing at the Aberdeen Ramkota. The conference includes a number of vendors pitching their wares for organic ag producers large and small and for folks who’d just like a good jar of jelly:
…quality organic soil enhancements:
…a coop producing organic dairy products:
…and a farmer-owned mill for organic grain:
Owl Creek Organics, Healthy Fields, Organic Valley Coop, Heartland Mill, and a whole bunch more organic entrepreneurs, farmers, and other people interested in sustainable agriculture will be back at the Ramkota Saturday for the final day of the NPSAS Winter Conference.
I am impressed with Ms. Barnaud. That she withstood your “I AM HERE IN YOUR FACE WITH A CAMERA SHOUTING” initial approach bodes well for that pretty young woman. Did you pick her because she had a nice booth or was a pretty young woman you felt might be a libbie? Nevermind, it doesn’t matter. I thought your filming was really good on that movie. The next one, not so much.
Bernadette.
Interesting. I like it.
Just yesterday I was told that a co-op member of Organic Valley Dairy is able to make a respectable living with only 30 head of dairy cows. There is a movement in Deuel County to convince farmers to return to this dairy model. Is Gov. Daugaard wrong in his push for CAFO dairies as a means for economic development?
Paul, I’d love for you to math out the comparative economic (sales? jobs? local purchases?) and environmental (land use? water pollution? energy usage for production and transportation?) impact of one CAFO with 6,000 head and 200 organic dairies each milking 30 head.
I love organic fertilizer and an organic dairy co-op and a peoples organic grain mill and a giant sized “jar ‘o jelly”, pilgrims. Don’t you?
Cory, I’ll see if Dakota Rural Action’s Brookings office has any figures on something like this. That would be very interesting. If we went back to the old way of producing milk then maybe we would go back to having clean water. Maybe the Big Sioux wouldn’t be unsafe to swim in.
Dang, I passed up the chance to use the “mathification” word.