SunRidge Farms is pleased to announce an expanded Pretzel line.  These Non GMO items come in a variety of delicious coatings from Milk Chocolate to Blueberry Yogurt.  Check your favorite grocers bulk section to find these delicious snacks or print out the flier and bring it with you so they can order for the store to carry. Download PDF

From the New York Times comes an article on the impact and changes in the new Farm Bill just recently passed.   Check it out here – [link]

A competitive seed product for soybean and corn is poised to enter US Agriculture.  Designed by Dow, these new GMO crops are intended to compete against Monsanto’s GMO portfolio of engineered crops and seeds.  Here’s the full story – [link]

The Chinese Governments push to research GMO’s has slowed due to reduced funding.  There is enough confusion as to the safety, claimed yields, and regulation that the Chinese have been very slow in allowing GMO seeds to be used.  It will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of years.  Here’s the story from Reuters – [link]

The drought in California is impacting almond growers to the point of having to remove the trees themselves because if they die in the orchard insects and disease spread to the remaining and neighboring orchards.  The impact on crop production this year is unknown but farmers fear the worst.  For more, [link]

People want Non GMO.  That message is being heard by major food companies now and they are finding that the supply chain is so filled with GM crops that it’s a real challenge to convert.  That’s how pervasive and insidious the GM problem has become.  From Reuters this article details some of these issues in great detail – [link]

An Australian farmer is suing his neighbor over the significant economic loss that occurred when the organic farmer lost most of his organic certifications due to cross contamination of his crop by his neighbors planting of GMO canola and rapeseed.   Monsanto is not party to the suit as that company forces farmers to sign a third party waiver which leaves liability to the farmer.  If the lawsuit is successful, farmers will likely be less inclined to plant GMO crops if they can be held liable for their potential contamination of neighboring farmers crops.   Here’s more on this story – [link]

Reacting to the state by state effort by groups that want Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) labeled on foods that contain them, the food industry is proposing voluntary guidelines for this labeling.  With over 30 States expected to see some type of legislation regarding GMO’s this year, the industry is trying to come to grips on what labeling should be done so that each State doesn’t end up with their own set of rules.  It’s clear that people just want to know what’s in their foods.  Perhaps, labeling will happen sooner than we think.  For more on the story, [link]

Idaho Fish and Game (IFG), rather than defend their actions in court, decided to end an controversial decision to trap and kill two packs of wolves in an area of Idaho that has had a decline in the elk herds.  Defenders of Wildlife and it’s partners were instrumental in pressuring Idaho Fish and Game to cancel the program before facing a judge in Federal Court.  The IFG program went against US Fish and Game policy and that likely played into the decision to pull the program instead of addressing their policy in court.  Unfortunately, while this issue made its way… Read More