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Why are we buying so much toilet paper?!
We've all witnessed panic-buying in the grocery aisles and maybe did some ourselves. The empty shelves reveal how we try to find control as coronavirus fears grow more rampant. But how do we control our fears and our carts?
Food Security, Health
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Coronavirus and Our Food: Should We Be Scared?
As coronavirus COVID-19 spreads globally, how concerned should we be for our safety? And should we fear transmission of the virus via our food, especially among imported products?
Food Regulations and Policy, Food Safety
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Boosting Your Health with Mushrooms
Do you want to boost your immune system during the COVID-19 pandemic? Mushrooms can strengthen your immunity, while also improving brain health and inhibiting cancer growth. Here's what the science says...
Food Ingredients, Health
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Cork & Cow: FFA Spotlight on Emily Matzke
As we celebrate International Women's Day this week, we would like to introduce FFA member, Emily Matzke. Emily is developing a business plan to tie her love of ag and local food products together to create a unique dairy product!
D2D on the Farm
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Personalized Nutrition & Our Unique Health Needs
Which foods are best for you? Personalizing your diet can optimize your health and prevent illnesses like cancer and obesity. These programs create customized diets based on our personal data...but do they really work?
Diet, Health
There Is No Such Thing As A Dirty Vegetable
Have you heard the buzz about the dirty dozen? These fruits and veggies have gotten a bad reputation and consumers are being told to buy them only when organically grown. But is this fear justified?
Food Safety
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D2D on the Farm: Support Local Farms
Consumers love buying locally grown produce. Some consumers push local farms to go organic, but real support is listening to farmers about what's best for their crops.
D2D on the Farm, Food Production, Soil and Crop Management
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Toxins and Toxicants – how much is too much?
We often hear that things that are considered “toxic” are always bad for you, while any food or product that is good for you is completely non-toxic,
Food Ingredients, Food Safety
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Jack Bobo: How We Choose Our Food
At D2D, we find Jack Bobo's insights on consumers interesting and unique. He brings an informative perspective about our choices in the grocery store. Jack searches into the questions that drive our decisions in the marketplace and how our brains are wired, sometimes helping us and other times hurting us.
Agricultural Technology, Food Production
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COVID-19 aid package offers assistance to rural America
The aid to farmers in this Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security Act package, including funding for the Commodity Credit Corp. and the Office of the Secretary, will allow USDA to begin crafting an appropriate relief program for agriculture
Food Production, Food Security
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Modernizing Meat Production Will Help Us Avoid Pandemics
In addition to trying to round up the latest stampeding pandemic, we need to examine the circumstances that enable these zoonotic diseases to leap from another species to humans.
Food Regulations and Policy, Food Safety
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Surviving COVID-19: How US Farmers Are Coping In Uncertain Times
“As farmers, especially small farmers catering to a local market, we always need to be creative. When normal or established marketing routes disappear, you’d better be proactive or your sales will disappear, too.”
Food Production
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There’s no reason to avoid fresh produce during outbreak
Purdue University’s Department of Food Science has a message for consumers: Don’t let a fear of the coronavirus COVID-19 to keep you from eating fresh fruits and vegetables.