Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Connor Huntington visited us today for “farm camp”. I hope he enjoyed himself because he worked hard. We planted about 500′ of potato varieties at Breeze, as well as do a number of maintenance chores.
Our evening was very discouraging. Chris and I attended a “listening session” hosted by the Farm Bureau to discuss the potential impacts of the Food Safety Acts (HR2749 and S510). By the end of the evening, we were numb. If even a fraction of the proposed regulations are applied to small farms like ours, we will be out of business – pretty much like all the small dairy operations are gone. We just cannot afford to comply with everything. Most galling is that the legislators who are jumping on the band-wagon have no idea what they are doing.