Posted on 07/24/2009 3:37:21 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
What do you guys think of this product for canning? Reusable lids. Has anyone tried them?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2653208/posts
BTW, Happy New Year, everyone. I’m looking forward to a new year and new adventures.
Hi Marm,
I’ve used them quite a bit... Posted several entries on that thread, including pictures...
Work very well with both the pressure canner and the hot-water bath... My main complaint is the cost... (but,; I tend to be a bit on the thrifty side) and the other question is that the rubber seems a bit softer and thinner than the old ones were back in the ‘70s - which is not a problem, just a concern for how long the rubber rings will last.
I’ll go back and read your comments at the other thread. It had just been posted when I saw it so there weren’t many comments yet. I figured you would be the one here that might have experience with them.
Lemongrass essential oil, interesting:
A great antiseptic, studies show that Lemongrass
is more effective against staph infection than either
penicillin or streptomycin.
From AromaTherapy Healing for Body and Soul
by Kathi Keville
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Happy New Year, Granny.
Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution 100 mg per 5 mL (20 mg/mL): Medication Use Error - Reports of Accidental Overdose
AUDIENCE: Pharmacy, Oncology, Pain Management
ISSUE: Roxane Laboratories and FDA notified healthcare professionals of serious adverse events and deaths resulting from accidental overdose of morphine sulfate oral solutions, especially when using the high potency 100 mg/5mL product. In most of these cases, morphine sulfate oral solutions ordered in milligrams (mg) were mistakenly interchanged for milliliters (mL) of the product. The approval of this product is part of FDA’s unapproved drugs initiative. Prior to the recent approval, Roxane marketed a morphine sulfate oral solution with the strength expressed as 20 mg/mL, using a container label and carton labeling that had brown lettering on a white background. The newly approved product labeling and packaging feature revisions intended to reduce the risk of medication errors.
BACKGROUND: Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution 100 mg per 5 mL (20 mg/mL) is indicated for relief of moderate to severe acute and chronic pain in opioid-tolerant patients.
RECOMMENDATION: See Roxane’s “Dear Healthcare Professional Letter” for a complete description and photos of labeling and product packaging changes. Changes include:
* A warning stating “ONLY FOR USE IN PATIENTS WHO ARE OPIOID TOLERANT” is displayed in a box to highlight that the morphine sulfate oral solution 100 mg per 5 mL (20 mg/mL) is indicated for use in opioid-tolerant patients only. The 100 mg per 5 mL concentration of morphine sulfate may cause fatal respiratory depression when administered to patients not previously exposed to opioids.
* The strength is presented as 100 mg per 5 mL followed by a less prominently displayed concentration of (20 mg/mL). The intent of this designation is to help differentiate this product from the 20 mg/5 mL morphine sulfate product.
* A bright yellow background is used on multiple sides of this product to differentiate the morphine sulfate oral solution 100 mg per 5 mL (20 mg/mL) from other morphine sulfate oral solutions marketed by Roxane with a white background.
* The drug name, strength and concentration are displayed in white lettering on a red background as an additional means of differentiating this product from other concentrations of morphine sulfate oral solutions.
* A reminder is presented to the pharmacist to dispense the product to each patient with the enclosed Medication Guide.
* Both the 30 mL and 120 mL bottles of morphine sulfate 100 mg per 5 mL (20 mg/mL) oral solution are packaged with a calibrated oral syringe to provide accurate dose measurements. Healthcare providers should read the instructions in the Medication Guide that describe the correct use of the oral syringe in order to help prevent medication errors from occurring.
* Healthcare providers should discuss the correct use of the oral syringe with their patients.
Read the MedWatch safety alert, including links to the Dear Healthcare Professional Letter and product Prescribing Information, at:
B.C. urban homeowner fined $5,200 for growing cucumbers, plans suit
Gratto - who has lived in the home for 30 years - says he’s raring to join an imminent
class-action lawsuit attacking the municipality’s grow-op bylaw inspections. A number
of citizens, led by Stacy Gowanlock, allege their homes were illegally searched
for marijuana grow-ops resulting in them being slapped with fees and repair orders
costing upward of $10,000 - all on questionable evidence.
Photos - A Year At Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
In a far-flung city, in a dispersed digital age, locally based agriculture and neighborhood
gardens provide a tangible sense of community and a connection to the land. This
project documents the passing seasons at one such community: Eagle Street Rooftop
Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Forget Urban Farms. We Need a Wal-Mart
Detroit lost its last chain grocery store three years ago when the last two Farmer
Jack’s groceries closed. This seems incredible-a city of nearly 1 million people
without a supermarket-but it’s true. No A&P. No Meijer’s. Not even a Wal-Mart.
Any Detroiters who want fresh store-bought fruits and vegetables or wrapped meats
have to get in their car and drive to the suburbs. That is, if they have a car.
Fee of $400 suggested for farming inside city of Reedsburg, Wisconsin
An ordinance allowing limited agricultural use in residentially zoned areas was
approved in November, but the fee to perform harvesting will not be discussed by
the Reedsburg Common Council until Monday.
The new ordinance will allow developers to apply for an annual permit so they can
harvest crops on undeveloped residential sites for one year.
On Tuesday, the city
Plan Commission decided to recommend that the fee should be set at $400.
—
Japan offers 1 million yen annual grants to people who start farming after migrating
from metropolitan areas to rural ones
The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry has decided to offer 1 million
yen annual grants to people who start farming after migrating from metropolitan
areas to rural ones, the ministry said Wednesday.
Under the “U-turn, I-turn subsidy” program, the government aims to utilize uncultivated
farmland and revitalize farming, which has been strained by declining numbers and
advancing age.
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Stories here:
City Farmer News [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=fclqmpbab&et=1104222882070&s=1304&e=001IM65k-AlZxC30kUMfNCQi27cHiXFfoWp1spxbmZC-BCnb1oXu2q6Nv1HxBJugP7CORx-8Bmc7NYvQNbb4WPZLYGm1nxi0UPXc8L_ol8_snsFXsYkdUUUrA==]
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
1978-2011
To help cleanse the air
Posted by: “Debbie Harlan”
Discourage the spread of colds in the home.
Use this blend of Eucalyptus and Lemon
and Tea Tree to wipe down surfaces (add to warm water).
Use 8 - 10 drops in a diffuser or room spray
to help cleanse the air .
Lemon 8 drops
Eucalyptus 6 drops
Tea Tree 6 drops
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http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm239335.htm
Boncheff Greenhouses, Inc. Recalls For Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Budwey Markets, Wades Market, Cuba Giant Food Market, And Hegedorn’s Cilantro, Curly Parsley, And Italian Parsley Because Of A Possible Health Risk.
Contact:
Tom Boncheff
416-233-6922
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 5, 2011 - Boncheff Greenhouses, Inc. of Toronto, Ontario is issuing a voluntary recall on Cilantro, Curly Parsley, and Italian Parsley, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
These herbs were distributed to various retailers in New York State and Pennsylvania. The items were sold between December 14th and December 28th, 2010.
No illnesses have been reported to date.
This recall is related to a voluntary recall from J & D Produce Edinburg, Texas which packs under the Little Bear Brand Cilantro, Curly Parsley, and Italian Plain Parsley. This product was purchased and shipped on Dec 6, 2010 to Boncheff Greenhouses where it was repacked and distributed.
The items were sold under the following labels:
Wegmans Food Markets (sold in two stores in Erie, PA and in New York state stores except Corning, Elmira, Ithaca, and Johnson City) - Wegmans Food You Feel Good About Cilantro (UPC: 6-25647-80104), Curly Parsley (UPC: 6-25647-80110), and Italian Parsley (UPC: 6-25647-80125) sold in 0.25 ounce poly sleeves. Product may be returned to the service desk for a refund. For more information, call Wegmans Consumer Affairs at 1-800-934-6267, ext. 4760, Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5:00pm or visit www.wegmans.com9.
Boncheff Brand (Italian Parsley Lot code 1002387 sold in the following five stores: Budwey Kenmore 416 Kenmore Avenue Buffalo, NY 14223, 716-362-2350; Budwey Division Street North Tonawanda, NY 14150, 716-693-2802; Wades Market 6179 Rt.96 Farmington, NY 14564, 585-924-3667; Cuba Giant Food Market 44 Park Avenue Wellsville, NY 14895, 585-968-2360; and Hegedorn’s, Inc. 964 Ridge Rd. Webster, NY 14580, 585-671-4450 Product may be returned directly to the store for refund
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Page Last Updated: 01/10/2011
Using Essential Oils to Energize and Reduce Fatigue
Posted by: “Debbie Harlan”
Some of you may still be worn out from the holidays. Here are a few ideas to
get you going.
Try diffusing Basil before going out in the evening. This is especially good
when you’ve been working all day and need to get up enough energy to go out.
Basil’s energizing effects will give you the boost you need.
Tea Tree is another essential oil indicated for mental fatigue. It promotes
blood flow to the brain and is helpful for those whose immune system is
weak.
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“B.C. urban homeowner fined $5,200 for growing cucumbers”
“Forget Urban Farms. We Need a Wal-Mart”
“Fee of $400 suggested for farming inside city of Reedsburg, Wisconsin”
Boy, Oh Boy... How misguided can ‘public servants’ get?
Just when we need more programs like:
“Japan offers 1 million yen annual grants to people who start farming after migrating from metropolitan areas to rural ones”
I predict this will get much worse once the ‘safe food’ law kicks in.... Geeesh... Forced starvation.
How to Respond to Terrorism Threats and Warnings
October 7, 2010
by Scott Stewart
In this week’s Geopolitical Weekly, George Friedman wrote that recent warnings by the U.S. government of possible terrorist attacks in Europe illustrate the fact that jihadist terrorism is a threat the world will have to live with for the foreseeable future. Certainly, every effort should be made to disrupt terrorist groups and independent cells, or lone wolves, and to prevent attacks. In practical terms, however, it is impossible to destroy the phenomenon of terrorism. At this very moment, jihadists in various parts of the world are seeking ways to carry out attacks against targets in the United States and Europe and, inevitably, some of these plots will succeed. George also noted that, all too often, governments raise the alert level regarding a potential terrorist attack without giving the public any actionable intelligence, which leaves people without any sense of what to do about the threat.
The world is a dangerous place, and violence and threats of violence have always been a part of the human condition. Hadrian’s Wall was built for a reason, and there is a reason we all have to take our shoes off at the airport today. While there is danger in the world, that does not mean people have to hide under their beds and wait for something tragic to happen. Nor should people count on the government to save them from every potential threat. Even very effective military, counterterrorism, law enforcement and homeland security efforts (and their synthesis — no small challenge itself) cannot succeed in eliminating the threat because the universe of potential actors is simply too large and dispersed. There are, however, common-sense security measures that people should take regardless of the threat level.
Situational Awareness
The foundation upon which all personal security measures are built is situational awareness. Before any measures can be taken, one must first recognize that threats exist. Ignorance or denial of a threat and paying no attention to one’s surroundings make a person’s chances of quickly recognizing a threat and then reacting in time to avoid it quite remote. Only pure luck or the attacker’s incompetence can save such a person. Apathy, denial and complacency, therefore, can be (and often are) deadly. A second important element is recognizing the need to take responsibility for one’s own security. The resources of any government are finite and the authorities simply cannot be everywhere and stop every terrorist act.
As we’ve mentioned previously, terrorist attacks do not magically materialize. They are part of a deliberate process consisting of several distinct steps. And there are many points in that process where the plotters are vulnerable to detection. People practicing situational awareness can often spot this planning process as it unfolds and take appropriate steps to avoid the dangerous situation or prevent it from happening altogether. But situational awareness can transcend the individual. When it is exercised by a large number of people, situational awareness can also be an important facet of national security. The citizens of a nation have far more capability to notice suspicious behavior than the intelligence services and police, and this type of grassroots defense is growing more important as the terrorist threat becomes increasingly diffuse and as attackers focus more and more on soft targets. This is something we noted in last week’s Security Weekly when we discussed the motives behind warnings issued by the chief of France’s Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence regarding the terrorist threat France faces.
It is important to emphasize that practicing situational awareness does not mean living in a state of constant fear and paranoia. Fear and paranoia are in fact counterproductive to good personal security. Now, there are times when it is prudent to be in a heightened state of awareness, but people are simply not designed to operate in that state for prolonged periods. Rather, situational awareness is best practiced in what we refer to as a state of relaxed awareness. Relaxed awareness allows one to move into a higher state of alert as the situation requires, a transition that is very difficult if one is not paying any attention at all. This state of awareness permits people to go through life attentively, but in a relaxed, sustainable and less-stressful manner. (A detailed primer on how to effectively exercise situational awareness can be found here.)
Preparedness
In the immediate wake of a terrorist attack or some other disaster, disorder and confusion are often widespread as a number of things happen simultaneously. Frequently, panic erupts as people attempt to flee the immediate scene of the attack. At the same time, police, fire and emergency medical units all attempt to respond to the scene, so there can be terrible traffic and pedestrian crowd-control problems. This effect can be magnified by smoke and fire, which can impair vision, affect breathing and increase the sense of panic. Indeed, frequently many of the injuries produced by terrorist bombings are not a direct result of the blast or even shrapnel but are caused by smoke inhalation and trampling.
In many instances, an attack will damage electrical lines or electricity will be cut off as a precautionary measure. Elevators also can be reserved for firefighters. This means people are frequently trapped in subway tunnels or high-rises and might be forced to escape through smoke-filled tunnels or stairwells. Depending on the incident, bridges, tunnels, subway lines and airports can be closed, or merely jammed to a standstill. For those driving, this gridlock could be exacerbated if the power is out to traffic signals.
In the midst of the confusion and panic, telephone and cell phone usage will soar. Even if the main trunk lines and cell towers have not been damaged by the attack or taken down by the loss of electricity, a huge spike in activity will quickly overload the exchanges and cell networks. This causes ripples of chaos and disruption to roll outward from the scene as people outside the immediate vicinity of the attack zone hear about the incident and wonder what has become of loved ones who were near the attack site.
Those caught in the vicinity of an attack have the best chance of escaping and reconnecting with loved ones if they have a personal contingency plan. Such plans should be in place for each regular location — home, work and school — that each member of the family frequents and should cover what that person will do and where he or she will go should an evacuation be necessary. Obviously, parents of younger children need to coordinate more closely with their children’s schools than parents of older children. Contingency plans need to establish meeting points for family members who might be split up — and backup points in case the first or second point is also affected by the disaster.
The lack of ability to communicate with loved ones because of circuit overload or other phone-service problems can greatly enhance the sense of panic during a crisis. Perhaps the most value derived from having personal and family contingency plans is a reduction in the stress that results from not being able to immediately contact a loved one. Knowing that everyone is following the plan frees each person to concentrate on the more pressing issue of evacuation. Additionally, someone who waits until he or she has contacted all loved ones before evacuating might not make it out. Contingency planning should also include a communication plan that provides alternate means of communication in case the telephone networks go down.
People who work or live high-rises, frequently travel or take subways should consider purchasing and carrying a couple of pieces of equipment that can greatly assist their ability to evacuate such locations. One of these is a smoke hood, a protective device that fits over the head and provides protection from smoke inhalation. The second piece of equipment is a flashlight small enough to fit in a pocket, purse or briefcase. Such a light could prove invaluable in a crisis situation at night or when the power goes out in a large building or subway. Some of the small aluminum flashlights also double as a handy self-defense weapon.
It is also prudent to maintain a small ‘fly-away’ kit containing clothes, water, a first aid kit, nutritional bars, medications and toiletry items for you and your family in your home or office. Items such as a battery- or hand-powered radio, a multitool knife and duct tape can also prove quite handy in an emergency. The kit should be kept in convenient place, ready to grab on the way out.
Contingency planning is important because, when confronted with a dire emergency, many people simply do not know what to do. Not having determined their options in advance — and in shock over the events of the day — they are unable to think clearly enough to establish a logical plan and instead wander aimlessly around, or simply freeze in panic.
The problems are magnified when there are large numbers of people caught unprepared, trying to find solutions, and scrambling for the same emergency materials you are. Having an established plan in place gives even a person who is in shock or denial and unable to think clearly a framework to lean on and a path to follow. It also allows them to get a step ahead of everybody else and make positive progress toward more advanced stages of self-protection or evacuation rather than milling around among the dazed and confused. (A detailed primer on contingency planning can be found here.)
Travel Security
Of course, not all emergencies occur close to home, and the current U.S. government warning was issued for citizens traveling in Europe, so a discussion here of travel security is certainly worthwhile. Obviously, the need to practice situational awareness applies during travel as much as it does anywhere else. There are, however, other small steps that can be taken to help keep one safe from criminals and terrorists when away from home.
In recent years, terrorists have frequently targeted hotels, which became attractive soft targets when embassies and other diplomatic missions began hardening their security. This means that travelers should not only look at the cost of a hotel room but also carefully consider the level of security provided by a hotel before they make a choice. In past attacks, such as the November 2005 hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, the attackers surveilled a number of facilities and selected those they felt were the most vulnerable. Location is also a critical consideration. Hotels that are close to significant landmarks or hotels that are themselves landmarks should be considered carefully.
Travelers should also request rooms that are somewhere above the ground floor to prevent a potential attacker from easily entering the room but not more than several stories up so that a fire department extension ladder can reach them in an emergency. Rooms near the front of the hotel or facing the street should be avoided when possible; attacks against hotels typically target the foyer or lobby at the front of the building. Hotel guests should also learn where the emergency exits are and physically walk the route to ensure it is free from obstruction. It is not unusual to find emergency exits blocked or chained and locked in Third World countries. And it is prudent to avoid lingering in high-risk areas such as hotel lobbies, the front desk and entrance areas and bars. Western diplomats, business people and journalists who frequently congregate in these areas have been attacked or otherwise targeted on numerous occasions in many different parts of the world.
There are also a number of practical steps than can be taken to stay safe at foreign airports, aboard public transportation and while on aircraft; more information on that topic can be found here.
Perspective
Finally, it is important to keep the terrorist threat in perspective. As noted above, threats of violence have always existed, and the threat posed to Europe by jihadist terrorists today is not much different from that posed by Marxist or Palestinian terrorists in the 1970s. It is also far less of a threat than the people of Europe experienced from the army of the Umayyad Caliphate at Tours in 732, or when the Ottoman Empire attacked Vienna in 1683. Indeed, far more people (including tourists) will be affected by crime than terrorism in Europe this year, and more people will be killed in European car accidents than terrorist attacks.
If people live their lives in a constant state of fear, those who seek to terrorize them have won. Terror attacks are a tactic used by a variety of militant groups for a variety of ends. As the name implies, terrorism is intended to produce a psychological impact that far outweighs the actual physical damage caused by the attack itself. Denying would-be terrorists this multiplication effect, as the British largely did after the July 2005 subway bombings, prevents them from accomplishing their greater goals. Terror can be countered when people assume the proper mindset and then take basic security measures and practice relaxed awareness. These elements work together to dispel paranoia and to prevent the fear of terrorism from robbing people of the joy of life.
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‘How to Respond to Terrorism Threats and Warnings is republished with permission of STRATFOR.’
Source: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20101006_how_respond_terrorism_threats_and_warnings
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In many states a new insurance product is now available to help specialty crop and livestock farmers. Subsidized by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), this insurance is called “Adjusted Gross Revenue Lite,” or AGR-Lite for short.
AGR-Lite is a “whole farm revenue” product that insures a percentage of a farm’s historical adjusted gross revenue based on tax records, rather than historical crop yield information. Since specialty crop farm revenue may be based on organic or other price premiums, their revenue might be higher than conventional operations of similar size. AGR-Lite is also one of the few federally subsidized insurance products that also insures revenue from livestock.
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In many states a new insurance product is now available to help specialty crop and livestock farmers. Subsidized by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), this insurance is called “Adjusted Gross Revenue Lite,” or AGR-Lite for short.
AGR-Lite is a “whole farm revenue” product that insures a percentage of a farm’s historical adjusted gross revenue based on tax records, rather than historical crop yield information. Since specialty crop farm revenue may be based on organic or other price premiums, their revenue might be higher than conventional operations of similar size. AGR-Lite is also one of the few federally subsidized insurance products that also insures revenue from livestock.
But AGR-Lite may not be a solution to managing risk for all farmers with diverse or unique production. Many variables need to be analyzed for each farm to determine if the AGR-Lite insurance package works for it. Fortunately there’s a new computer-based decision tool that helps diversified farmers assess AGR-Lite.
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To register for the January 20th webinar, click on the link below:
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(Free copies of the AGR-Lite assessment tool are also available at NCAT’s ATTRA National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service http://www.attra.ncat.org website or by calling 1-800-346-9140.)
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Insuring Diversified and Specialty Farms: Is USDA’s AGR-LITE Insurance Program Right for You?
Webinar to demonstrate tool for assessing AGR-Lite Insurance options.
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
10AM Central Standard Time
Farmers with diverse crop and livestock operations, or organic or specialty crops, face special hurdles in today’s crop insurance market. These farmers may raise crops or livestock that are little understood by mainstream crop insurance brokers. Highly diverse, organic and specialty crop operations are often unable to reduce their risk by carrying traditional crop insurance.
In many states a new insurance product is now available to help specialty crop and livestock farmers. Subsidized by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), this insurance is called “Adjusted Gross Revenue Lite,” or AGR-Lite for short.
AGR-Lite is a “whole farm revenue” product that insures a percentage of a farm’s historical adjusted gross revenue based on tax records, rather than historical crop yield information. Since specialty crop farm revenue may be based on organic or other price premiums, their revenue might be higher than conventional operations of similar size. AGR-Lite is also one of the few federally subsidized insurance products that also insures revenue from livestock.
But AGR-Lite may not be a solution to managing risk for all farmers with diverse or unique production. Many variables need to be analyzed for each farm to determine if the AGR-Lite insurance package works for it. Fortunately there’s a new computer-based decision tool that helps diversified farmers assess AGR-Lite.
The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) will present a webinar on January 20th at 10:00 AM Central time that will discuss the benefits of the AGR-Lite insurance program, and will demonstrate the new free online assessment tool that can help farmers determine if AGR-Lite is right for them.
To register for the January 20th webinar, click on the link below:
http://attra.ncat.org/webinars2011/agr-lite/
(Free copies of the AGR-Lite assessment tool are also available at NCAT’s ATTRA National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service http://www.attra.ncat.org website or by calling 1-800-346-9140.)
Free Webinar
Insuring Diversified and Specialty Farms: Is USDA’s AGR-LITE Insurance Program Right for You?
Webinar to demonstrate tool for assessing AGR-Lite Insurance options.
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
10AM Central Standard Time
Farmers with diverse crop and livestock operations, or organic or specialty crops, face special hurdles in today’s crop insurance market. These farmers may raise crops or livestock that are little understood by mainstream crop insurance brokers. Highly diverse, organic and specialty crop operations are often unable to reduce their risk by carrying traditional crop insurance.
In many states a new insurance product is now available to help specialty crop and livestock farmers. Subsidized by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), this insurance is called “Adjusted Gross Revenue Lite,” or AGR-Lite for short.
AGR-Lite is a “whole farm revenue” product that insures a percentage of a farm’s historical adjusted gross revenue based on tax records, rather than historical crop yield information. Since specialty crop farm revenue may be based on organic or other price premiums, their revenue might be higher than conventional operations of similar size. AGR-Lite is also one of the few federally subsidized insurance products that also insures revenue from livestock.
But AGR-Lite may not be a solution to managing risk for all farmers with diverse or unique production. Many variables need to be analyzed for each farm to determine if the AGR-Lite insurance package works for it. Fortunately there’s a new computer-based decision tool that helps diversified farmers assess AGR-Lite.
The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) will present a webinar on January 20th at 10:00 AM Central time that will discuss the benefits of the AGR-Lite insurance program, and will demonstrate the new free online assessment tool that can help farmers determine if AGR-Lite is right for them.
To register for the January 20th webinar, click on the link below:
http://attra.ncat.org/webinars2011/agr-lite/
(Free copies of the AGR-Lite assessment tool are also available at NCAT’s ATTRA National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service http://www.attra.ncat.org website or by calling 1-800-346-9140.)
Happy New Year to all of you, off to a slow start here, but intend to catch up...LOL - one of these days.
The special articles are needed at times to remind me of what is really going on in the world, for by always being indoors, I do tend to miss a lot.
We forget how much a simple hug can mean to some folks, who need them.
Like me!!!
So am sending all of you a dozen of them.
Amazing the speed that things are deteriorating...
Seems Governments at all levels are opposing anything not under their control or with their greedy fingers in the pot:
“Bobby and Amanda Herring spent more than a year providing food to homeless people in downtown Houston every day. They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said. That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down their “Feed a Friend” effort for lack of a permit. And city officials say the couple most likely will not be able to obtain one. “We don’t really know what they want, we just think that they don’t want us down there feeding people,” said Bobby Herring”
Prompting one poster to say:
“NO AMATEURS ALLOWED—grants and donation money at stake. Allways follow the money. POVERTY IS AN INDUSTRY”
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