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Photo: Mike Lewis/Center for Invasive Species Research, UC Riverside\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/18/310557799/fighting-bugs-with-bugs-hatching-a-solution-for-troubled-trees\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/05/20140518_atc_fighting_bugs_with_bugs_hatching_a_solution_for_troubled_trees.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Steven Jackson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/18/310557799/fighting-bugs-with-bugs-hatching-a-solution-for-troubled-trees\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/19/2014)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all know about the drought in California, but farmers there have more to worry about than a lack of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also the looming threat of Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), an invasive pest that flies from tree to tree, feeding on tender leaves. By itself, the psyllid is not particularly harmful, but it can carry citrus greening disease, which kills trees within a few years of infection. There is no cure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, ACP spread citrus greening disease all over Florida, devastating the state's $9 billion citrus crop, destroying 60,000 acres of farmland and driving up farming costs by about 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACP came to California in 2008. This alone was worrying, but the truly alarming news came four years later in 2012, when a backyard orange tree in Los Angeles County was found to be infected with citrus greening disease. With both the disease and the carrier present in the state, citrus growers are worried that the agricultural disaster in Florida might repeat itself in California, and they're scrambling for a solution. And instead of relying on chemicals and quarantines, farmers and scientists are turning to an unlikely ally: another bug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legacy Of Insects\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using insects to fight invasive pests isn't exactly new. It's called biological control, and California growers have been doing it for over a century. In many ways, the \"golden age\" of biological control was in the early 1900s. The University of California system supported entomological research expeditions all over the world to find natural predators for invasive pests. Businesses called insectaries popped up, devoted to rearing insects by the millions and selling them to farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associates Insectary in Santa Paula, Calif., was one of the earliest such businesses. It opened in 1928 and is still active today. Associates rears mites, beetles, snails and wasps — hundreds of millions of them each year — and releases them on about 8,000 acres of citrus and avocado groves in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Brett Chandler, owner and operator, says the job is not easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The insects are living, breathing creatures and they have to be collected and fed ... every day of the year,\" he says. \"It's a highly skilled small staff that does the work, and most of it can't be automated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is labor intensive work, but Associates Insectary has plenty of clients to support the business. 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Hoddle is an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, where he focuses on the biological control of invasive species using natural predators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoddle recently went on a research expedition to Pakistan, which is thought to be ACP's country of origin. There he found a parasitic wasp, called T\u003cem>amarixia radiata\u003c/em>, that loves to kill ACP. Hoddle brought some wasps back to the states and began running tests to ensure they wouldn't become invasive nuisances themselves if introduced in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 18 months of testing in quarantine, the results were clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The parasites we found in Pakistan pose no risk to non-target species,\" Hoddle says. \"They are very focused on finding Asian citrus psyllid for food, and in the absence of Asian citrus psyllid, they will starve to death. 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"content": "\u003cp>Once again, the warm, dry winter threw cherry trees off their game all over the state. California usually delivers the nation’s early season cherries, but with yields down around a third of what they usually are you can expect to pay a whole lot more at the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.calcherry.com/\">California Cherry Advisory Board\u003c/a> has estimated the crop will be \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitalpress.com/California/20140423/california-starts-harvest-of-light-cherry-crop\">25-50 percent smaller\u003c/a>. That's serious news for the state's agriculture industry. Cherries bring in $200 million dollars a year in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Columbini of Lodi Farming is in the northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, so his cherry crop is only down about 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most cherry tree varieties require a certain number of hours under 45 degrees in the winter. But warm days followed by cold nights throw off a cherry tree. \"It does not think winter is over with yet,\" Columbini says. \"It hasn't develop strong buds. And so when temperatures do start warming up in the spring, it's forced out of dormancy and we get a weak, staggered bloom, and most of those flowers do not actually make it into cherries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the trees want is a wet, chilly winter with fog that keeps the daytime temperatures under 55 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some orchards are so bare, growers aren't bothering to pick. There's a calculation to be made. \"When there's fewer cherries on the tree, we pay higher wages,\" to offset the low yield, Columbini explains. Also, that staggered bloom results in a staggered harvest, requiring pickers to pass through an orchard repeatedly. Increase the wages, and you increase the costs, which leads to higher prices at the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad years are becoming more common in California, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/heat-and-harvest/\">climate change\u003c/a>. There's always crop insurance, but Columbini says he's heard rumors that some growers in the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley are getting frustrated with the spotty harvests, and pulling up their cherry trees. There are varieties that don't require as much winter chill, but they all require some chill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.murrayfamilyfarms.com/about-the-farm/\">Murray Family Farms\u003c/a> in Arvin, southeast of Bakersfield, is not pulling up any trees, yet, even though \"It's pretty terrible.\" Ashlee Beason is the farm's farmers' market director and store supervisor. She says Murray grows 27 varieties, and this year, only 12 bore fruit. \"We didn't get our chill hours this year. Early varieties came in at 50 percent. The later varieties didn't come in at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/Cherries2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-81944\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/Cherries2.jpg\" alt=\"California grown Cherries: eat them now, or wait for next year. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California grown Cherries: eat them now, or wait for next year. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was the third year of bad harvests in a row for Murray, \"but this year is definitely the lightest.\" Just the same, Beason says the farm is going to \"hang tight\" and hold on to its cherry trees. Some varieties, like the GG1, are exclusive to Murray. \"They are pretty fabulous, the size of a small plum, sweet and juicy and dark. When we take them to the farmers' market, they will sell out.\" The farm serves Southern California farmers markets primarily, but it does get as far north as \u003ca href=\"http://www.murrayfamilyfarms.com/locations/farmers-markets/\">Las Vegas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SloGrangeTuesdayFarmersMarket\">San Luis Obispo\u003c/a>. Expect to pay $2 more per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the plus side, a smaller crop typically delivers sweeter, firmer, larger fruit. Jeff Columbini insists this year's cherries taste better, an assertion this reporter has confirmed through personal research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cherry lovers don't need to fear deprivation. Washington and Oregon states are the bigger producers, and they start delivering in early June. But if you want to eat local cherries, don't wait: the season here ends in June.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Photo: Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/03/309027851/organic-farming-factions-spat-over-synthetic-substances\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/3/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the news biz, we rely on thumbnail descriptions, sparing you the details. We'll tell you, for instance, that organic farmers aren't allowed to use synthetic pesticides and factory-made fertilizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, that's true. But there's also a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5096045\">long list\u003c/a> of pesky exceptions to the rule. And this week, a battle erupted over those exceptions: the synthetic or factory-made substances that organic farmers are still allowed to use because the farmers say they couldn't survive without them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, growers of organic apples and pears are allowed to use streptomycin, an antibiotic, to control a tree disease called fire blight. Egg producers are allowed to use limited amounts of a synthetically produced nutrient called methionine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of these substances were on the agenda at a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateJ&page=NOSBMeetings\">meeting\u003c/a> of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Standards Board this week in San Antonio, an event that turned into an ill-tempered confrontation between two wings of the organic industry — purists versus Big Organic. One protester had to be carried out of the room by police, while her comrades chanted, \"Don't change sunset.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What provoked this \"cryptic chant,\" as Grist's Nathanael Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/food/showdown-at-the-organic-standards-board-meeting/\">described\u003c/a> it, was a dispute over how to handle that list of exceptions to the organic ban on synthetics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those exceptions are supposed to \"sunset.\" They are approved for a limited time period, no more than five years. And until now, it required a two-thirds majority of the NOSB to keep them on the list and extend their use in organic agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, though, the USDA issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5105095\">new rules\u003c/a>. From now on, it will take a two-thirds majority to \u003cem>remove\u003c/em> synthetics from the list of approved substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This switch, making it easier for organic food companies to continue using synthetic substances, provoked outrage among organic purists like Mark Kastel, co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cornucopia.org/\">Cornucopia Institute\u003c/a>. They fear that the organic label is being taken over by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/17/304205632/can-wal-mart-really-make-organic-food-cheap-for-everyone\">large companies\u003c/a> that care more about profits than organic ideals and are willing to blur the line between organic and conventional agriculture. The critics \u003ca href=\"http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/04/organic-activists-charge-usda-regulators-capitulating-corporate-interests/\">accused\u003c/a> the USDA of \"capitulating to corporate interests.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USDA, for its part, says that the change in voting procedures will bring more stability and consistency to its rule-making. Up to now, a minority of the NOSB could remove a substance from the list of approved substances, forcing farmers and companies into painful adjustments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Antonio, though, the purists prevailed, at least when it came to the most hotly debated substances: streptomycin and methionine. Both votes, however, were special cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streptomycin didn't face a simple sunset vote; the NOSB had created a hard expiration date for the antibiotic several years ago, so a two-thirds majority was required to extend its use. 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Photo: Don Holtz/Ketchum\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/02/308066437/agribusiness-funds-farmland-to-counter-hollywood-message\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/05/20140502_me_agribusiness_funds_farmland_to_counter_hollywood_message.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Adam Ragusea, \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpb.org\">GPB\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/02/308066437/agribusiness-funds-farmland-to-counter-hollywood-message\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/2/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmlandfilm.com/\">\u003cem>Farmland\u003c/em>\u003c/a> opened in theaters Thursday. It's the latest in a string of documentaries about agriculture, like \u003cem>Food Inc.\u003c/em> and \u003cem>King Corn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the latter two films made damning accusations about the environmental and human costs of modern agribusiness, this documentary was funded by agribusiness. It tells a very different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farmland\u003c/em> opens with sweeping visuals you'd expect — swaying wheat fields and weathered barns. The documentary follows the lives of six young farmers — including a soybean grower in Nebraska and a Texas cattleman — who all share a belief that their profession is misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people have some sort of idea, maybe from television or something, that there's bulldozers and tractors, just clouds of smoke going and destroying ground and destroying habitat,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenpeople.org/listing/Oasis-Organics-45623.cfm\">Sutton Morgan\u003c/a>, a farmer who grows organic onions in California, in the film. \"But they don't understand that our environment, which is our ground, has to be in good condition, otherwise you can't be a successful farmer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Farmland\u003c/em> was funded by the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance. This group was formed in response to recent movies and books like \u003cem>Fast Food Nation\u003c/em>, which warned consumers off factory-farmed ground beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1449px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/mg_9930-67c05c86497dda6a98061b8a78e6e1f0b94f8711.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/mg_9930-67c05c86497dda6a98061b8a78e6e1f0b94f8711.jpg\" alt=\"The Loberg family raises corn and soybeans in Carroll, Neb. Photo: Don Holtz/Ketchum\" width=\"1449\" height=\"1086\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Loberg family raises corn and soybeans in Carroll, Neb. 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The alliance hired a respected director for the project, Oscar-winning documentarian \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002224/\">James Moll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd been wanting to do a film on farming for a long time, and my agent in [Los Angeles] said, 'You know, there's a farmers group who's looking to make a film, or to find someone to make a film on farming.' I said, 'No I don't want to do something with someone else's vision. I'm not going to make a commercial,' \" says Moll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Moll agreed to do it after being promised creative control. And you can tell he got it in one scene of workers viciously kicking hogs and a sick cow rolling across the ground, pushed by the blade of a backhoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These videos were shot secretly by animal rights activists, and they've long been viral online. In \u003cem>Farmland\u003c/em>, hog farmer Ryan Velduizen says what we're seeing is not representative. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen the videos of people not treating animals correctly. First, my heart breaks — that's not, that's not the way you treat animals, that's just not right,\" says Velduizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the film is trying to make farmers more sympathetic, activist and food journalist \u003ca href=\"http://michaelpollan.com/\">Michael Pollan\u003c/a> says that's a straw man argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It serves the interests of the large corporations that are really under attack to put the farmers in front of them, and say that it is the farmers being attacked, not a set of practices, not a ... highly concentrated industry, not monopolistic seed merchants, all the things that are the real targets,\" says Pollan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, farmers have been loving the film at invitation-only screenings, like one hosted by the Georgia Farm Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rancher Amy Moncrief was in the audience. 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This group was formed in response to recent movies and books like \u003cem>Fast Food Nation\u003c/em>, which warned consumers off factory-farmed ground beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1449px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/mg_9930-67c05c86497dda6a98061b8a78e6e1f0b94f8711.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/mg_9930-67c05c86497dda6a98061b8a78e6e1f0b94f8711.jpg\" alt=\"The Loberg family raises corn and soybeans in Carroll, Neb. Photo: Don Holtz/Ketchum\" width=\"1449\" height=\"1086\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Loberg family raises corn and soybeans in Carroll, Neb. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"403\" src=\"http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365228873\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77074\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/NicoletteNiman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-77074\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/NicoletteNiman-190x190.jpg\" alt=\"Nicolette Hahn Niman, BN Ranch\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolette Hahn Niman, BN Ranch\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the latest video from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lexiconofsustainability.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lexicon of Sustainability\u003c/a>'s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/15/the-lexicon-of-sustainability-q-a-with-filmmaker-douglas-gayeton/\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Gayeton\u003c/a>, \"Antibiotic-Free,\" Bill and Nicolette Niman of \u003ca href=\"http://eatlikeitmatters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">BN Ranch\u003c/a> share their thoughts on the growing movement in the U.S. to remove sub-therapeutic antibiotics from American beef. 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This is a huge environmental issue because it’s potentially on the food -- these antibiotics resistant bacteria -- as well as the antibiotic residue, and it’s also in the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77097\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT2-ANTIBIOTICFREE_03.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-77097\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT2-ANTIBIOTICFREE_03-290x163.jpg\" alt=\"Antibiotic-free\" width=\"290\" height=\"163\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nearly 80% of the antibiotics in this country aren’t used on people but on animals we eat.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Problems with antiobiotic use:\u003c/strong> \"The biggest problem with using antibiotics in animal farming is the potential for their overuse...When they are overused by continually feeding them in their daily feed, which is common practice today in the United States, is when populations of bacteria [on farms] evolve that are very resistant to these drugs. When humans come in contact with those bacteria, either by being on the farm or even by eating the food products from that farm, a person can contract an illness that cannot be treated with antibiotics. It’s really a huge human health issue and I think that really is the primary concern.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Antibiotics for treatment vs. accelerating growth:\u003c/strong> \"The interesting thing is…there are these two totally different uses. The one is for treating an individual animal that is actually sick and treating them with the prescribed dose. That usage of antibiotics has not been shown to contribute to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In contrast to that usage, [there's] the usage of sub-therapeutic antibiotics, where animals are continually being given this low dose. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT2-ANTIBIOTICFREE_Roughcut_11-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-77098\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT2-ANTIBIOTICFREE_Roughcut_11-2-290x163.jpg\" alt=\"Sub-therapeutic antibiotics\" width=\"290\" height=\"163\">\u003c/a> This has been shown repeatedly in many studies to foster the rise of antibiotics-resistant bacteria. In my opinion, using antibiotics to treat an illness of an individual animal is entirely defensible and actually a good practice. 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Depending on how and where we're raising cattle, it can be a very efficient food source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local vs. regionally-produced beef:\u003c/strong> \"I would never argue that meat should be totally locally produced. It’s always been the case that certain geographies are more appropriate raising of certain types of animals than other geographies. Therefore I will argue more for a regional kind of food system, where foods are produced in sort of large food shed areas and certain foods maybe transported longer distances -- if they are produced especially well in certain geographies. This is actually a good example of food that probably could never be totally locally produced if you want it really an efficient system because you have huge swath of the United States, especially in the far West, that are natural grasslands and are uniquely suited for cattle grazing. 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And then we're back to almost eight months of oranges, apples and, if we must, Fig Newtons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these figless days may be coming to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers in California, where more than 90 percent of American figs are grown, are locked in a tight race to do what has never been done before: produce ripe, fresh figs during the cooler months, when the trees typically shut down and shed their leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a dream of mine to make figs more like strawberries, to grow them as close as possible to year-round,\" says fig famer Kevin Herman, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.speccrop.com/\">The Specialty Crop Company\u003c/a>. It doesn't hurt that he can charge triple for the first figs of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman's company is based in Madera in the San Joaquin Valley — the heart of the state's fig industry. But Herman also now grows figs in the perennially balmy Imperial Valley, near the Mexican border. There, he is finding that figs can be coaxed into ripeness nine months of the year — and maybe more. The unique climate — warm through the winter — helps, but Herman is pushing the trees to their physiological limits by experimenting with pruning, fertilizing and irrigation schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's working. Since planting his trees seven years ago, Herman has inched closer to the goal of the year-round fig, extending his season by a few more days each year. In 2013, Herman harvested figs almost into February — his latest harvest ever — and resumed on May 7. This year, thanks to extra dry and extra warm weather, he began harvesting his first \"summer\" figs on April 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A record? Not quite. It turns out a competing grower in the same valley beat him to the April harvest, picking his first figs the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruit packer George Kragie, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.westernfreshmarketing.com/\">Western Fresh Marketing\u003c/a> of Madera, is selling those April 22 figs, and says they're the earliest of his career in fruit packing. Kragie declined to identify the farmer growing the fruit (to protect his business), but he tells The Salt the figs went to a small Southern California fruit stand, where they are selling for about $7 for a half-pound package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some growers use an industry trick to help them get their figs to market before anyone else: They dab a little olive oil on the underside of their half-ripe fruit to make the figs swell up and turn black. They don't grow any sweeter, but they appear ripe, which is enough to sell them to wholesalers. Herman says he was about to start swabbing oil on his Imperial Valley figs when, early this week, \"they started ripening on their own almost\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kragie and Herman are competitors, they do share a long-term vision: getting fresh figs on the shelves all year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to keep people thinking about figs at all times, not just in the summer,\" Kragie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman believes year-round production can be achieved in California — though he says he has considered planting orchards in Mexico, where February-through-April production may be a likelier bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kragie, however, says he and his farmer have experimented with a variety of growing methods, including hydroponic, soil-less systems in greenhouses. But nothing has worked, he says, in bridging the figless wintertime gap. He doubts that California fig trees will ever produce fruit in February or March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why Kragie recently resorted to importing figs from Chile, where the harvesting season runs opposite to California's, peaking in February and March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2011, fresh figs were tough to import into the U.S. for commercial sale because of growers' concerns about introducing mites that would damage California's orchards. Kragie says he managed to bring in Chilean fruit by getting a permit and proving the fruit has been fumigated heavily with \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/ozone/mbr/qa.html\">methyl bromide\u003c/a>, which kills the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80868\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/black-mission-fig-and-prosciutto-pizza_sq-820415d02c760723132e0ebb731ba8ca3f5299da.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/black-mission-fig-and-prosciutto-pizza_sq-820415d02c760723132e0ebb731ba8ca3f5299da-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"Mouth watering yet? As of now, you can only get a pizza like this in the summer and fall. Farmers in California are trying to change that by growing figs at least from April through February. Photo: Courtesy of California Fresh Fig Growers Association\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80868\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mouth watering yet? As of now, you can only get a pizza like this in the summer and fall. Farmers in California are trying to change that by growing figs at least from April through February. Photo: Courtesy of California Fresh Fig Growers Association\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herman believes the imported Chilean figs could mess up the game plan just a bit. He has tried these figs, he says, and he wasn't impressed with their stiff, dry texture and flat taste. His concern is that such fruit will tarnish the reputation of all figs — even those grown in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fig farmer Richard DeBenedetto, based near Fresno, has the same fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chilean figs have been pretty lousy,\" he tells The Salt. \"They've been inferior, and that tends to impact everyone in the industry. It sucks down the prices of all the figs, even our high-quality ones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as year-round fresh figs get closer to reality, not all fig lovers are thrilled. Sondra Bernstein, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thegirlandthefig.com/\">The Girl and the Fig restaurant\u003c/a> in Sonoma, Calif., says figs are her favorite fruit of the summer — and eating them in the winter and spring wouldn't be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If figs become available all the time, you'd lose the romantic part of waiting for the season and watching your tree as the fruits get bigger and start ripening throughout the summer,\" Bernstein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, many fruits that were once seasonal specialties — like grapes, cherries, peaches and oranges — have become available year-round, thanks to global transport, development of early- and late-ripening varieties and better greenhouses. Long-term refrigerated storage, too, can now keep fruits like apples in good condition for almost a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've become so spoiled by having these fruits all the time,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/?facultyid=671\">Louise Ferguson\u003c/a>, a tree fruit specialist with the University of California. Figs, she observes, were until recently among the very last seasonally available fruits, along with persimmons and pomegranates. \"Now, it seems figs might become just another crop we expect to have year-round.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you decide you need to try one of the early figs, it'll cost you. Herman's Imperial Valley figs retail at more than $10 a pound, and Kragie's early figs are going for as much as $15 a pound at the fruit stand. (Compare that to most summertime figs, which sell for $3 or $4 a pound.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's ludicrous,\" Kragie admits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worth the price? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman's company is based in Madera in the San Joaquin Valley — the heart of the state's fig industry. But Herman also now grows figs in the perennially balmy Imperial Valley, near the Mexican border. There, he is finding that figs can be coaxed into ripeness nine months of the year — and maybe more. The unique climate — warm through the winter — helps, but Herman is pushing the trees to their physiological limits by experimenting with pruning, fertilizing and irrigation schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's working. Since planting his trees seven years ago, Herman has inched closer to the goal of the year-round fig, extending his season by a few more days each year. In 2013, Herman harvested figs almost into February — his latest harvest ever — and resumed on May 7. This year, thanks to extra dry and extra warm weather, he began harvesting his first \"summer\" figs on April 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A record? Not quite. It turns out a competing grower in the same valley beat him to the April harvest, picking his first figs the day before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruit packer George Kragie, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.westernfreshmarketing.com/\">Western Fresh Marketing\u003c/a> of Madera, is selling those April 22 figs, and says they're the earliest of his career in fruit packing. Kragie declined to identify the farmer growing the fruit (to protect his business), but he tells The Salt the figs went to a small Southern California fruit stand, where they are selling for about $7 for a half-pound package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some growers use an industry trick to help them get their figs to market before anyone else: They dab a little olive oil on the underside of their half-ripe fruit to make the figs swell up and turn black. They don't grow any sweeter, but they appear ripe, which is enough to sell them to wholesalers. Herman says he was about to start swabbing oil on his Imperial Valley figs when, early this week, \"they started ripening on their own almost\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kragie and Herman are competitors, they do share a long-term vision: getting fresh figs on the shelves all year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd like to keep people thinking about figs at all times, not just in the summer,\" Kragie says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman believes year-round production can be achieved in California — though he says he has considered planting orchards in Mexico, where February-through-April production may be a likelier bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kragie, however, says he and his farmer have experimented with a variety of growing methods, including hydroponic, soil-less systems in greenhouses. But nothing has worked, he says, in bridging the figless wintertime gap. He doubts that California fig trees will ever produce fruit in February or March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why Kragie recently resorted to importing figs from Chile, where the harvesting season runs opposite to California's, peaking in February and March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2011, fresh figs were tough to import into the U.S. for commercial sale because of growers' concerns about introducing mites that would damage California's orchards. Kragie says he managed to bring in Chilean fruit by getting a permit and proving the fruit has been fumigated heavily with \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/ozone/mbr/qa.html\">methyl bromide\u003c/a>, which kills the pest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80868\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/black-mission-fig-and-prosciutto-pizza_sq-820415d02c760723132e0ebb731ba8ca3f5299da.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/black-mission-fig-and-prosciutto-pizza_sq-820415d02c760723132e0ebb731ba8ca3f5299da-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"Mouth watering yet? As of now, you can only get a pizza like this in the summer and fall. Farmers in California are trying to change that by growing figs at least from April through February. Photo: Courtesy of California Fresh Fig Growers Association\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80868\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mouth watering yet? As of now, you can only get a pizza like this in the summer and fall. Farmers in California are trying to change that by growing figs at least from April through February. Photo: Courtesy of California Fresh Fig Growers Association\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Herman believes the imported Chilean figs could mess up the game plan just a bit. He has tried these figs, he says, and he wasn't impressed with their stiff, dry texture and flat taste. His concern is that such fruit will tarnish the reputation of all figs — even those grown in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fig farmer Richard DeBenedetto, based near Fresno, has the same fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chilean figs have been pretty lousy,\" he tells The Salt. \"They've been inferior, and that tends to impact everyone in the industry. It sucks down the prices of all the figs, even our high-quality ones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as year-round fresh figs get closer to reality, not all fig lovers are thrilled. Sondra Bernstein, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thegirlandthefig.com/\">The Girl and the Fig restaurant\u003c/a> in Sonoma, Calif., says figs are her favorite fruit of the summer — and eating them in the winter and spring wouldn't be the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If figs become available all the time, you'd lose the romantic part of waiting for the season and watching your tree as the fruits get bigger and start ripening throughout the summer,\" Bernstein says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, many fruits that were once seasonal specialties — like grapes, cherries, peaches and oranges — have become available year-round, thanks to global transport, development of early- and late-ripening varieties and better greenhouses. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1671px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/collins_new_wide-0c5982d7ff390bfc8f96382e28008ec13345b24e.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/collins_new_wide-0c5982d7ff390bfc8f96382e28008ec13345b24e.jpg\" alt=\"Recent rains kept Suzanne and Mike Collins' orange grove alive, but the rainy season is ending. If they don't get federal irrigation water by this summer, their trees will start dying. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\" width=\"1671\" height=\"941\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80739\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent rains kept Suzanne and Mike Collins' orange grove alive, but the rainy season is ending. If they don't get federal irrigation water by this summer, their trees will start dying. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/22/303726931/fields-and-farm-jobs-dry-up-with-californias-worsening-drought\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/04/20140422_me_fields_and_farm_jobs_dry_up_with_californias_worsening_drought.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/188396171/kirk-siegler\">Kirk Siegler\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/22/303726931/fields-and-farm-jobs-dry-up-with-californias-worsening-drought\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (4/22/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon on the main drag of Orange Grove, Calif., about a dozen farm workers gather on the sidewalk in front of a mini-mart\u003cem>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man sits on a milk crate sipping a beer. A few others scratch some lotto tickets. Salvador Perez paces back and forth with his hands stuffed in the pockets of his jeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is no water, there's no work, he says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez was laid off when the citrus farmer he worked for ran out of water. He has five kids to support, and though the family is on unemployment, it's about to run out. So he's been hanging out here hoping to hear of some work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says he and his family have been living here since 1983 and have never seen a drought this bad. A man next to him says he may head back to Mexico soon. He has heard the farms there have more water right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You hear a lot of these stories up and down California's Central Valley. Everything that everyone has been warning about over the past few months is starting to happen. Workers are getting laid off as prized fruit and nut trees are going unwatered, and fields are going fallow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As droughts have worsened in recent years, federal authorities have released less and less water from a web of reservoirs and canals in northern California that feeds farms and cities in the arid south. For the first time in six decades, most farmers on the east side of this valley have been told they will get no federal irrigation water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a crisis that's been building for years, says Victor Lopez, who is Orange Cove's vice mayor. He adds that he's extremely worried. The 71-year-old was the mayor for 30 years, and before that, a farm worker from the time he was a little boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a very low-income community [that's] made up of farm workers,\" Lopez says. \"It relies solely on ag and the packing houses. And the water is what we need, and if we don't, I'm worried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farmers here can't tap groundwater to get by; it's too contaminated with nitrates. For Lopez, years like this are proof that California needs to build more dams and storage reservoirs. A new one is proposed nearby, but even if it's approved, it won't do anything for today's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, one of the most serious things is, I believe, that a lot of the people will relocate, they'll move out of town,\" he says. \"I hear people telling me, 'We're going to get the heck out of here,' OK? And that's devastation to our community here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just the farm workers who may be forced to pack up and leave. An hour drive south of Orange Cove is Suzanne Collins' small orchard of Valencia and blood oranges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1674px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/neighbor-grove_wide-d44c4254b0ab416c48c7572841659d0848e2bad9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/neighbor-grove_wide-d44c4254b0ab416c48c7572841659d0848e2bad9.jpg\" alt=\"The drought prompted Suzanne Collins' neighbor to get out of the farming business. Without water soon, Collins fears she will suffer the same fate. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\" width=\"1674\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80740\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The drought prompted Suzanne Collins' neighbor to get out of the farming business. Without water soon, Collins fears she will suffer the same fate. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"403\" src=\"http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365199122\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77133\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/JudithRedmond.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-77133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/JudithRedmond-190x190.jpg\" alt=\"Judith Redmond, Full Belly Farm\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judith Redmond, Full Belly Farm\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Judith Redmond of \u003ca href=\"http://fullbellyfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Belly Farm\u003c/a> says food is more than what you eat. Food carries with it an undeniable sense of place, and the French even have a word for it: it’s called \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/web-extra-the-terroir-of-cheese/\" target=\"_blank\">terroir\u003c/a>. Learn more about what makes food from different regions taste unique in this new video from filmmaker \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/15/the-lexicon-of-sustainability-q-a-with-filmmaker-douglas-gayeton/\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Gayeton\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lexiconofsustainability.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Lexicon of Sustainability\u003c/a> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5 Quotes from \u003ca href=\"http://fullbellyfarm.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Redmond of \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://fullbellyfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Belly Farm\u003c/a>, Guinda, CA\u003c/strong> (Excerpted from a conversation with Douglas Gayeton)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Origins of Full Belly Farm: \u003c/strong>We started about 30 years ago, when a group of four people decided to go into business together as organic farmers at a time when there were very few organic farmers in the world really. Some of us had a lot of farm experience in our family background, others didn’t. But all of us were concerned about environmental issues, community issues and wanted to do something with our lives that would integrate our environmental values into our work. Farming organically seemed like the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT1_TERROIR_roughcut_08-4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-77136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT1_TERROIR_roughcut_08-4-290x163.jpg\" alt=\"Capay Valley\" width=\"290\" height=\"163\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Capay Valley, home of the farm:\u003c/strong> It’s a narrow valley with a creek running down the center and we were lucky enough to find some land right on that creek. There’s lots of wildlife here; it’s a beautiful natural environment. It has a really wonderful climate for growing vegetables year round. It’s also not a big enough valley that there are many really large farms. It’s a valley of small-scale family farmers and with a very human landscape that was very attractive as a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transparency:\u003c/strong> We are a farm that works directly with consumers almost as a matter of principle. We go to farmers' markets and talk to our eaters a lot. Each of the three farmers' markets that we go to has one owner attending it almost year-round every single week. We also have a community-supported agriculture program. Through that program, we feel as if the families that get a box every week are very much a part of our farm. They build a relationship with our farm and we get pretty continuous feedback. We also have a weekly newsletter that all of those members and other people in the community get. Through that newsletter we can tell them what’s happening at the farm, what’s happening with their vegetables, what’s coming up and also what agricultural and food issues we think are important. Telling people what we do and why we’re doing things is a fundamental part of transparency. I think transparency is one of the principles of a community-based farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT1_TERROIR_10.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-77135\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEXISHORT1_TERROIR_10-e1390541986558-290x213.jpg\" alt=\"terroir\" width=\"290\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Complexity of food choices:\u003c/strong> As soon as people have tasted fruits and vegetables that are local and fresh, I think they understand fairly quickly the difference. 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If someone’s interested in healthy, tasty, rich food, I think they’ll be much more excited and they’ll have much more deeper understanding if they get acquainted with that local unique terroir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEX179_terroir_fullbelly.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77137\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEX179_terroir_fullbelly.jpg\" alt=\"Terroir artwork\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1536\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All images, artwork and video by Douglas Gayeton\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Scott Applewhite/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/17/303772556/plant-breeders-release-first-open-source-seeds\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/04/20140417_me_plant_breeders_release_first_open_source_seeds.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/17/303772556/plant-breeders-release-first-open-source-seeds\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (4/17/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of scientists and food activists is launching a \u003ca href=\"http://www.news.wisc.edu/22748\">campaign\u003c/a> Thursday to change the rules that govern seeds. They're releasing 29 new varieties of crops under a new \"open source pledge\" that's intended to safeguard the ability of farmers, gardeners and plant breeders to share those seeds freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's inspired by the example of open source software, which is freely available for anyone to use but cannot legally be converted into anyone's proprietary product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an event on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, backers of the new Open Source Seed Initiative will pass out 29 new varieties of 14 different crops, including carrots, kale, broccoli and quinoa. Anyone receiving the seeds must pledge not to restrict their use by means of patents, licenses or any other kind of intellectual property. In fact, any future plant that's derived from these open source seeds also has to remain freely available as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nutrisci.wisc.edu/facultypages/f_goldman.html\">Irwin Goldman\u003c/a>, a vegetable breeder at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, helped organize the campaign. It's an attempt to restore the practice of open sharing that was the rule among plant breeders when he entered the profession more than 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If other breeders asked for our materials, we would send them a packet of seed, and they would do the same for us,\" he says. \"That was a wonderful way to work, and that way of working is no longer with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, seeds are intellectual property. Some are patented as inventions. You need permission from the patent holder to use them, and you're not supposed to harvest seeds for replanting the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even university breeders operate under these rules. When Goldwin creates a new variety of onions, carrots or table beets, a technology-transfer arm of the university licenses it to seed companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This brings in money that helps pay for Goldman's work, but he still doesn't like the consequences of restricting access to plant genes — what he calls germplasm. \"If we don't share germplasm and freely exchange it, then we will limit our ability to improve the crop,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sociologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.drs.wisc.edu/faculty/kloppenburg/index.php\">Jack Kloppenburg\u003c/a>, also at the University of Wisconsin, has been campaigning against seed patents for 30 years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"403\" src=\"http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365168419\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>What does it mean to eat grass fed beef? What are the larger implications of producing and eating grass fed beef on animals, the environment and ourselves? In this new video, \"Grass Fed\" from \u003ca href=\"http://www.lexiconofsustainability.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lexicon of Sustainability\u003c/a> project, filmmaker \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/15/the-lexicon-of-sustainability-q-a-with-filmmaker-douglas-gayeton/\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Gayeton\u003c/a> explores grass farming, rotational grazing, industrial feed lots or Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs), carbon sequestration and other concepts. The video features Virginia-based farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm (you may recognize him from the documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_5\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Food, Inc\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5 Quotes from Farmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.polyfacefarms.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms\u003c/a>, Virginia\u003c/strong> (Excerpted from a conversation with Douglas Gayeton)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Role models:\u003c/strong> \"Well, number one was my Dad. My Dad was an early adherent to organic gardening and farming. And his Dad, my grandfather, was a charter subscriber to Rodale’s \u003cem>Organic Gardening\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Farming Magazine\u003c/em> when it first came out in 1947, '48. My awareness and lineage, I would say , we don't have a conversion express. We were born lunatics so it goes deep. It's way, way back there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80030\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/LEXISHORT9_GRASSFARMER_Roughcut_09.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/LEXISHORT9_GRASSFARMER_Roughcut_09-290x163.jpg\" alt=\"Farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms\" width=\"290\" height=\"163\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80030\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consumers and convenience:\u003c/strong> \"There's no question, farmers, the food system will bend to whatever consumers demand. One of the biggest misnomers in the whole food system right now are consumers who demand me to have my product at Walmart. That's one of the biggest, I don't know what, fallacies or whatever. Not only do I not want to be at Walmart, I don't even think there should be a Walmart...I think that is perhaps one of the single biggest consumer issues...because all of us, me included, all of us like convenience. We like it to be easy. We like to think that we can fundamentally change everything without changing very much about our lives or about our awareness or about our eating habits or lifestyle. The fact is we are so far off where we need to be that it's going to take all of us fundamentally changing some pretty basic things and not just making it a 10% deviation from what we're doing now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On not being certified organic:\u003c/strong> \"I've always said that organic is not a codified thing. It's a movement, it's a system of thought...We have a 24/7, 365 open-door policy that anyone can come from anywhere in the world, at any time to see anything unannounced. That's our commitment to transparency on open sourcing. Show me the organic farm that will do that and you're onto something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80032\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/LEXISHORT9_GRASSFARMER_09.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/03/LEXISHORT9_GRASSFARMER_09-290x163.jpg\" alt='Screenshot from \"Grass Fed video\"' width=\"290\" height=\"163\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80032\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot from \"Grass Fed video\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Grass fed vs corn fed:\u003c/strong> \"Grass fed is much superior, much superior nutritionally...It's ecologically healing, instead of ecologically destroying. It’s fundamentally different and superior by every measure you can measure. It's even more productive per acre. You actually produce more for acre as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On locally produced being the accepted standard of the future:\u003c/strong> \"I went to this restaurant...that was like a farm-to-table type. There’s a chalkboard and they listed out all of the foods that they were serving. They had Polyface chicken there, and I said to the waitress, 'I’m actually going to be on that farm tomorrow. I think I'm obviously going to have that chicken because I'm going to be there tomorrow and it would be nice to have that.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The chef sat down with me at the counter because it was at the end of the night. And we just had we struck up a conversation and I said, 'It must be nice to you to be able to have...so many agricultural resources nearby. You can actually have that chalkboard there.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he said, 'I hate that chalkboard. I think it's pathetic.' And I asked him, 'Why?' He said, 'I hate the fact that...I have to tell you that all of these vegetables and all of this food that I'm serving is local. Wouldn't it be great if you just knew wherever you went that it was local to that place and that everything would have a little bit different personality because of it?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEX15_mobstocking.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/LEX15_mobstocking.jpg\" alt=\"grassfed vs. cornfed\" width=\"1368\" height=\"1149\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All images, artwork and video by Douglas Gayeton\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Our hats go off to the good folks at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), who summarized it with easy-to-read infographics on what to expect over the next several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line: Climate change probably will hurt food production, raise food prices and increase hunger, especially in the tropics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, those calamities may not be inevitable. According to CGIAR, \"Adaptation will be key.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80040\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 831px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/image004_custom-f3e53a3339e122c1061aa56cac9df9df832ed10f.jpe\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/image004_custom-f3e53a3339e122c1061aa56cac9df9df832ed10f.jpe\" alt=\"In the 2030s, climate change will affect food and farming more strongly, particularly small-scale in poor countries. Infographic: CGIAR\" width=\"831\" height=\"1176\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80040\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the 2030s, climate change will affect food and farming more strongly, particularly small-scale in poor countries. Infographic: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cgiar.org/\">CGIAR\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want to see more infographics like this one, check out what CGIAR put together on the \u003ca href=\"http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/images/IPCCAg_2010.png\">2010s\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/images/IPCCAg_2050.png\">2050s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adaptation is climate-change jargon for everything that people can do to avoid the effects of rising temperatures, from building higher seawalls to installing air conditioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you're just talking about farming, the list of possible adaptations is long. It includes irrigation, switching to crop varieties that can better withstand high temperatures, planting earlier to take advantage of longer growing seasons, fighting new insect pests, and building new transportation infrastructure that will allow countries to move food to where it is needed most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International donors, including the World Bank, are now pouring money into research on \"\u003ca href=\"http://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/world-bank-scaling-investments-climate-smart-agriculture#.UzxTM6hdV8E\">climate smart agriculture\u003c/a>.\" They're trying out specific innovations among farmers in 15 \"\u003ca href=\"http://ccafs.cgiar.org/climate-smart-villages#.Uzwy86hdV8E\">climate smart villages\u003c/a>\" that have been identified in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one area of Senegal, for instance, farmers are now getting more accurate weather forecasts, delivered via cell phones. \u003ca href=\"http://ccafs.cgiar.org/about/who-we-are/our-staff/researchers/theme-leader/andrew-jarvis#.Uzxav6hdV8E\">Andy Jarvis\u003c/a>, of the \u003ca href=\"http://ciat.cgiar.org/\">International Center for Tropical Agriculture\u003c/a>, says these forecasts are vitally important, because farmers want to plant their crops just as the rains start, and the true start of the rainy season can't be easily predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may vary, from one year to the next, by a month or more, and farmers can easily be fooled into planting too early by a small rain that's not sustained. 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Someone saving seed alone will just end up with a closet of old seeds, as you end up with thousands of seeds when you save [them]. But if you share and network, someone else can save some and you can save some. And then you can share them. Seed is a great investment; one seed can lead to thousands of seed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serving as role models:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\"There are a few of us who were the original seed libraries/banks, and many of the models have been based on the work that those original groups have done. The West County Community Seed Exchange is unique in that we only offer locally-grown seed. Our commitment is to local seed, while others such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.richmondgrowsseeds.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Grows\u003c/a> is also focused on seed access to promote people just being able to grow food. So they offer bought seed or donated seed from seed companies. 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