Welcome to Food Week October 31 – November 5, 2022. Change your clocks and catch up on the week. Things not going away: Avocados, plastic, avian influenza, greenhouses, and salmonella. And hopefully not the Nile. Enjoy!
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Change your clocks this Sunday. Whether the Daylight savings is good or bad is debatable but it’s the change itself that is the real problem
Despite the best efforts of the Fed, the US economy just keeps adding jobs.
Um, salmonella is in all chickens, even in the backyard ones.
Avian Influenza has typically been a spring problem, spread by migratory fowl. This time it’s different. I million birds affected in Iowa in mid-autumn.
Egypt is the tip of the spear on climate change and food production. 5000 year of Nile food production in danger,
Canada has been very successful with greenhouses but crops like peppers and tomatoes need more light that the country has in winter. So supply shifts to Mexico.