Annual Conference Provides Opportunity To Ask Hard Questions to NJ Farm Bureau
The NJ Farm Bureau held its annual meeting today in Princeton. Tomorrow is the Directors meeting.
I had planned to crash the event, as I did last year, but got diverted. Maybe tomorrow.
Last year, there was a floor debate on GMO and Monsanto’s role in sponsoring the event, see
At any rate, if I were a real journalist, I’d give our new Farm Bureau head a call and ask him a few tough questions, like:
1) what’s your take on the NJFB GMO debate and pending legislation?
2) the Alstede Farm accident – will it prompt amendments to the NJ Right To Farm Act?
3) Highlands septic density model legal challenge – what is the status of the NJFB legal challenge of DEP regulations?
4) NJ Food deserts – Can the NJ Fresh and Farmland Preservation programs support food access reforms?
5) What are NJFB member Plans for renewal of Farmland preservation program funding?
6) Are NJ’s farmers willing to play a role in reducing chemical inputs and nutrient runoff that causes serious water pollution problems throughout the state?
7) Did you read the recent Washington Post Op-Ed on the need for a national food policy? What’s your response? see:
Come on real journo’s – jump in, ask a few tough questions!!