Podcast: House Panel Hears From Small Business Produce Farmers

Posted on | August 4, 2009 | Comments Off

Weekly microbusiness newscast

Weekly microbusiness newscast

I find it sort of interesting that I am often told to stop straying from the subject of microbusinesses whenever I bring up the subject of small farms — as if small farms and small businesses were two different things.

So, I’ll just state for the record: small farms are small businesses. And, as with the case in other industry sectors, most small agribusinesses are agri-microbusinesses (or micro agribusinesses?).

That wasn’t something I thought about every often when I was living in Brooklyn. But it is an inescapable fact of life here in rural upstate New York.

And it’s a good thing to remember.

I have some pretty strong feelings about the boxed or canned or otherwise packaged organic stuff laced with poison that is commonly referred to as processed food. I have equally strong feelings about real (that is, unprocessed, natural and as-recently-picked-as-possible) produce.

And I guess you can tell which one of those food products I prefer to tenderly place on my dining room table for the nourishment of my family.

But besides my ideas on food (and related ideas on health, a topic that seems to be very top of mind these days), I have ideas about microbusinesses and about how thoroughly and routinely they are ignored by policy makers.

I expect you probably know that, too.

In other microbusiness news, there’s lots of research: another installment of recently released research on small business finances and research on best practices for entrepreneurial development programs for women.

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