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Anonymous ID: 179ae5 May 11, 2020, 6:10 p.m. No.9131750   🗄️.is đź”—kun

strange little story

 

A botanist discovered the wreckage of a CIA plane crashed in January 1952 in the Death Valley

 

A man hiking around Death Valley looking for rare plants discovered something completely different.

On a hike looking for rare limestone endemic plants in Death Valley, a botanist spotted the wreckage of a plane.

 

After several hours of hiking and many interesting plants, the botanist managed to scramble over to the wreck. It turned out the plane has been there for 68 years.

 

In January 1952 this SA-16 Albatross was flying from Idaho to San Diego supporting classified CIA Cold War operations when its left engine caught fire over Death Valley, California and the plane began losing altitude and velocity.

 

The pilot gave the order to evacuate the plane and all 6 people on board jumped out the back door! They parachuted and safely landed 14 miles north of Furnace Creek which they then hiked to.

 

The abandoned plane then smashed into the steep limestone hillside in the Panamint Mountians.

 

https://www.airlive.net/a-botanist-discovered-the-wreckage-of-a-cia-plane-crashed-in-january-1952-in-the-death-valley/

Anonymous ID: 179ae5 May 11, 2020, 6:32 p.m. No.9132092   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2177

Farms That Sell Directly To Consumers Are Thriving Amid Coronavirus Downturn

 

Pingree put out a call for legislators to pass the PRIME Act, a policy designed to allow livestock farmers to process more of their meat locally rather than at USDA-inspected facilities. For livestock producers, if you want to sell meat to the public, the meat must be slaughtered in a USDA-inspected facility with few exceptions.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennysplitter/2020/05/11/farms-that-sell-to-consumers-are-thriving-amid-coronavirus-downturn/6f0aeea1689a

 

Representatives Massie and Pingree Introduce Bipartisan PRIME Act to Empower Local Cattle Farmers, Meet Consumer Demand

 

May 23, 2019 Press Release

U.S. Representatives Massie and Pingree Introduce Bill to Revive Local Meat Processing. Senators Angus King and Rand Paul Introduce Companion Legislation in the Senate.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Laura Lington, 202-225-3465

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, two cattle-raising lawmakers, Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME) re-introduced the PRIME (Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption) Act to make it easier for small farms and ranches to serve consumers. The PRIME Act (H.R. 2859/S. 1620) would give individual states freedom to permit intrastate distribution of custom-slaughtered meat such as beef, pork, or lamb to consumers, restaurants, hotels, boarding houses, and grocery stores.

 

“Consumers want to know where their food comes from, what it contains, and how it’s processed. Yet, federal inspection requirements make it difficult to purchase food from trusted, local farmers,” said Rep. Massie, who owns 50 head of cattle. “It is time to open our markets to give producers the freedom to succeed and consumers the freedom to choose.”

 

“In order for local farms to compete, they need scale-appropriate regulations. It’s not realistic to ask a local farmer in Maine to drive hours to get to a USDA-inspected processing facility and turn a profit,” said Rep. Pingree, who has been an organic livestock farmer for nearly 40 years. “The PRIME Act will help change federal regulations to make it easier to process meat locally—helping farmers scale up and give consumers what they so clearly want.”

 

Current law exempts custom slaughter of animals from federal inspection regulations, but only if the meat is slaughtered for personal, household, guest, and employee use (21 U.S.C. § 623(a)). This means that in order to sell individual cuts of locally-raised meats to consumers, farmers and ranchers must first send their animals to one of a limited number of USDA-inspected slaughterhouses. These slaughterhouses are sometimes hundreds of miles away, which adds substantial transportation cost, and also increases the chance that meat raised locally will be co-mingled with industrially-produced meat. The PRIME Act would expand the current custom exemption and allow small farms, ranches, and slaughterhouses to thrive.

 

Massie, a rancher, owns 50 head of cattle on his off-the-grid farm in northeast Kentucky. Pingree raises grass-fed beef and chickens on her island farm in North Haven, Maine. Original co-sponsors of the PRIME Act include Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Scott Perry (R-PA), Justin Amash (R-MI), Mark Meadows (R-NC), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Steve King (R-IA), and Mark Green (R-TN).

 

https://massie.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/representatives-massie-and-pingree-introduce-bipartisan-prime-act-to-empower

Anonymous ID: 179ae5 May 11, 2020, 6:41 p.m. No.9132227   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Local Food Directories: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Directory

 

The CSA Directory lists farm or network/association of multiple farms that offer consumers regular (usually weekly) deliveries of locally-grown farm products during one or more harvest season(s) on a subscription or membership basis. Customers have access to a selected share or range of farm products offered by a single farm or group of farmers based on partial or total advance payment of a subscription or membership fee.

 

Visit our Local Food Directories page to find other operations offering locally grown products. If you are a market manager visit our Local Food Directory Registration & Update page to add or update a market listing. An API will be available for developers to integrate this data into other applications in the near future.

 

https://www.ams.usda.gov/local-food-directories/csas

 

Local Food Directory Listings

 

fresh from the farm

 

https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/local-regional/food-directories-listings