New Jersey Farm Bureau’s newly reactivated Young Farmer & Rancher (YF&R) program was featured in a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Several YF&R members were interviewed for the story. Click here to read the story from philly.com.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House. And the Obamas can thank Wyckoff’s Christmas Tree Farm outside Belvidere for that. First lady Michelle Obama today accepted four trees from the White Township farm to be featured in the executive mansion,…
Among nearly 20,000 written comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on draft rules regarding produce and preventive controls are letters from lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), which is trying to nudge FDA into doing a second draft…
Polices adopted by the delegates of the New Jersey Farm Bureau 95th Annual Meeting are now available online. Click here to view the 2014 NJFB Policies.
Allen Carter, Jr. of Cape May County was elected 1st Vice President by the delegates of the NJFB 95th Annual Meeting. Click here to learn more about Allen.
Photos from the NJFB Annual Meeting are now available on this website. They can be found by clicking on “Photo Gallery” in the News menu. Or you can go there by clicking here.
My first blog on the reconstituted NJFB web site will have a few comments about the 2013 elections, but first a word about this and future posts. I am encouraged by my colleagues Jim Reilly and Liz Thompson to produce the blog, which I look…
The NJ Farm Bureau Annual Meeting will be held November 18-19 at the Princeton Westin at Forrestal Village. Click here to view or print a copy of the program.
Open-space preservation remains a popular initiative among state voters, but state legislators and the Christie administration aren’t so enthusiastic. Across New Jersey, seven out of 10 ballot questions dealing with raising funds to maintain parks and open space won approval from voters on Tuesday, which…
The deadline for submitting comments to the FDA regarding the rule implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act is November 15. NJ Farm Bureau encourages all producers who may be impacted to submit comments. Click here for some information you may use as a reference.
