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		<title>World-Renowned Soil Biologist will be answering YOUR questions on the Farmer Forum!</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/18/world-renowned-soil-biologist-will-be-answering-your-questions-on-our-farmer-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Ackoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYFC Farmer Forum is the place to go for answers to all your farm-related questions. We are pleased to announce that next week, June 24-28th, Dr. Elaine Ingham, Rodale Institute’s chief scientist, will log on to the forum each day to answer your questions in the “Soil and Fertility” section of the Farmer Forum.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resource Spotlight &#8211; Kiva Zip Helps Connect Supporting Communities with Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/17/resource-spotlight-kiva-zip-helps-connect-supporting-communities-with-entrepreneurs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/17/resource-spotlight-kiva-zip-helps-connect-supporting-communities-with-entrepreneurs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning farmers know that one of the biggest obstacles we face is access to capital and credit as we build our farms.  While there are a lot of commercial and governmental loan programs for farmers out there, many don&#8217;t have the flexibility or reach to assist those just starting their businesses.  We are lucky, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Review of the Senate Farm Bill and How It Affects You</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/14/final-review-of-the-senate-farm-bill-and-how-it-affects-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/14/final-review-of-the-senate-farm-bill-and-how-it-affects-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we switch our focus over to the House, we need to do a quick run-through of the Farm Bill that made its way through the Senate over the past few weeks.  With such a huge piece of legislation, it&#8217;s difficult to fully wrap one&#8217;s head around it; we are lucky to have the hotshots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Pitchfork On! Book Review &#8211; A Useful Guide to Country Living</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/13/get-your-pitchfork-on-book-review-a-useful-guide-to-country-living/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/13/get-your-pitchfork-on-book-review-a-useful-guide-to-country-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need some summer reading?  A new book by Kristy Athens offers an amusing and useful guide to rural living for those whose dreams of farm ownership have not yet coalesced.   Get Your Pitchfork On!: The Real Dirt on Country Living is a great guide for every aspect of planning for a rural life, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Bill passes Senate Yesterday, on to the House</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/11/farm-bill-passes-senate-yesterday-on-to-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/11/farm-bill-passes-senate-yesterday-on-to-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate officially passed its version of the US Farm Bill yesterday, throwing the ball in the court of the House of Representatives. We want to thank everyone who took actions &#8211; whether it was sending emails, signing petitions or making phone calls &#8211; to put pressure on their Senators.  Due to the high levels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final announcement &#8211; On-farm Food Safety Seminar today</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/10/final-announcement-on-farm-food-safety-seminar-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/10/final-announcement-on-farm-food-safety-seminar-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 11 AM EDT today, FamilyFarmed.org and GrowNYC/Greenmarket will present an On-Farm Food Safety webinar, focusing on best practices in food safety, post-harvest handling, and packing produce. As the FDA works on updating its food safety laws (as mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act &#8211; read more about it here), you need the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate to pass its Farm Bill draft on Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/07/senate-to-pass-its-farm-bill-draft-on-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/07/senate-to-pass-its-farm-bill-draft-on-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.youngfarmers.org/?p=11236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick follow up on the announcement earlier this week that the Senate would be wrapping up debates on Farm Bill amendments: The Senate approved the change, passing the cloture yesterday morning.  This means, essentially, that there was enough debate and not enough consensus to the point that a super-majority of Senators decided to cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Bill Update &#8211; Senate moves to cut debate</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/05/farm-bill-update-senate-moves-to-cut-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/05/farm-bill-update-senate-moves-to-cut-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the growing season moves into the height of summer, even the most politically-conscience of us start to get overwhelmed by the day-to-day activities on the farm.  Unfortunately for us, it seems now&#8217;s the time that things are really moving in DC!  Since it&#8217;s been a little while since our last Farm Bill update, here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Let&#8217;s Go Farm in Santa Rosa, CA</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/youngfarmerprofiles/2013/06/03/introducing-lets-go-farm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/youngfarmerprofiles/2013/06/03/introducing-lets-go-farm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma Kravet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joey Smith started Let’s Go Farm in 2011 on the land he grew up on in Santa Rosa, CA. On their 1-acre parcel, Joey and his farming partner Max grow a wide variety of vegetables, flowers, and some fruits and berries. They sell their produce on Sundays at the Windsor Farmer’s Market, and have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bootstrap @ Corse Family Farm &#8211; the Why</title>
		<link>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/01/the-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngfarmers.org/blog/2013/06/01/the-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abbie Corse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is this interesting phenomenon afoot wherein farmers have become celebrities of a sort, in small subsets of society. It is the strangest thing to me. I grew up feeling, well, judged as the farmer&#8217;s daughter and fairly ashamed of what my family did. Yeesh. I&#8217;ve said it. I&#8217;m so embarrassed by that; everything my family stands [...]]]></description>
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