Archive for March, 2014
2014 N.C. boll weevil assessment at $1 per acre
The board of the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of North Carolina has set the 2014 boll weevil assessment at $1 per acre of cotton.
Chipotle Unnecessarily Tears Down Agriculture to Build a Brand
In the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, they call it “values branding”: a marketing strategy in which a company tries to instill a feeling of righteousness in the customers who buy its products.
But what kind of values would inspire a corporation to wage a smear campaign against America’s farmers?