Local farmers and other food producers offer consumers a wide variety of fresh produce, flowers, grass-fed and free-range meats, honey, syrups, pancake mixes, apple cider, dairy products and more. Osofsky also said consumers who buy local products know where their foods are coming from and even can come to the farm to see them being produced. WANT farm-fresh produce picked the same day you buy it or grass-fed meats that haven't spent time being shipped from distant locales? Slater said his...

CSU work boosts beef industry Research persuades Egypt to change way it handles imports BY LAURA BAILEY LauraBailey@Coloradoan.com Liver might not be what's for dinner in the United States, but it's a popular item in Egypt, and researchers at Colorado State University have helped it stay that way. CSU work boosts beef industry Research persuades Egypt to change way it handles imports BY LAURA BAILEY LauraBailey@Coloradoan.com Liver might not be what's for dinner in the United States, but...

Regular dairy consumption is a fairly recent development, maybe the last 5,000 years or so, and then mostly in northern latitudes where the climate is right, and where industrialized nations have created both a huge dairy industry and the means to produce, preserve and distribute the products before they go bad. Cows, pigs as big as sofas, chickens (broilers and egg-layers), goats, sheep, and much, much more, come here to live out their natural lifespans in peace. But humans, it...

Delayed impact Cattle and dairy farmers have no hay or forage to take cows through the winter. Immediate Impact Grass in pasture and hayfields quit growing, leaving cows without food and farmers nothing to store for the winter. Cattle farmers either lose money importing expensive hay and feed over the winter or sell off their herd. Because of high prices, the number of acres planted in wheat this year is about four times what it was last year, Griffith said. Those who have sold their...

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Despite their generosity, Cubans remain anxious about food, especially those who remember the "Special Period" wartime-like austerity measures imposed in the early 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed and the island's gross domestic product plunged by 35 percent. I spent less than $17 for a month's sustenance, dropped nine pounds and learned like Cubans to budget carefully, plan meals ahead, buy only what was necessary and never throw food away. HAVANA No one on this communist-run island...