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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Diverse group, same mission

By Teresa | Published June 20, 2012

Is PFI suffering from “mission drift”? Someone asked me this question recently. His thoughts were that PFI “suffers severe program [...]

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Blog report from Myers Grass-finishing Livestock Field Day – Maxwell

By Luke | Published June 20, 2012

Blog report from Myers Grass-finishing Livestock Field Day By Margaret Dunn and Luke Gran Jacob and Sarah Myers hosted a [...]

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Pesticide Drift Monitoring Field Day

By Patrick | Published June 12, 2012

On May 31, Mustard Seed Community Farm in Ames hosted a Pesticide Drift Monitoring field day. Emily Marquez and Linda [...]

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Talk of Iowa – May 23, 2012

By Luke | Published June 8, 2012

PFI beginning farmers Kate Edwards, of Solon, and Tyler Franzenburg of Keystone, were the Talk of Iowa with Iowa Public [...]

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Real Life Business Plan Vetting from PFI 2012 Annual Conference Report

By Luke | Published June 8, 2012

Practical Farmers of Iowa beginning farmers are seeking more understanding of the business plan, and how farmers complete and continue [...]

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How to detect spray drift damage

By Sarah | Published June 8, 2012

Have you seen your neighbors spraying crops recently? Tomato plant damage from Glyphosate spray drift

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Support Beginning Farmers

By Sarah | Published June 4, 2012

Its not too late. CALL TODAY. Support Beginning Farmers. URGE IOWA’S Senators to support the Brown-Nelson Amendment to support Beginning [...]

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