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First Aired - 02/03/2011 04:30PM
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This week on Flash Talks Cash is for employees and freelances alike. Tune in as JoAnn "Flash" Fleming tells you when to file your W2 and 1099 forms, how to stay ahead of the same and why you shouldn't always bank on that big tax refund. Later in the show, listen in as Flash answers the mail bag and Andrew tries to reclaim his throne on Number Nuts. This show was sponsored by Fairway Market - like no other market.
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Flash Talks Cash Introduction: Forms, Forms, Forms (15:00)
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Flash Talks Cash, JoAnn Flash Fleming, Andrew Newman, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, which taxpayers are affected early February, W2's should be received, few forms are ready to be filed, if somebody gets a giant refund they should adjust their withholdings throughout the year, paying off debt with a tax refund, don't run up debt and pay it off with a tax refund, refunds to debit cards, tax app for a smart phone, if you are disorganized - hire somebody!, procrastination will cost you!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/18/2010 12:00PM
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Patrick calls into the show from Sullivan County with guests Anne Saxelby, Sonja Hedlund, Chally Comer, Dan Purdy & Mario Fantasma. Later in the show, the guys from Bion Technologies explain how to make energy from animal waste.
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The Main Course Introduction: Sonja Hedlund, Chally Comer & Dan Purdy (25:15)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Hearst Ranch, Heritage Radio Network, Patrick is in Sullivan County, dairy farmers, Dan Purdy, Sonja Hedlund, Challey Comer, Apple Pond Farm, renewable energy education, Stephan Geiger, Jersey Cow Farm, Ross Wall, gas drilling can't make agriculture happen!!, Marcellus shale deposit, Halliburton, Halliburton doesn't have to disclose their secret chemicals they drive into the earth, why are we consuming energy at this rate?!, our demand must go down, solar hot water, wind turbine, workshops for renewable energy, www.applepondfarm.com, summer program for kids, disguised child labor, workshop on renewable energy, whole milk ricotta, dairy farming, Hudson Valley Fresh, raw milk, Saxelby Cheesemongers, Secretary of Agriculture, distribution, kosher cheese, shared cost, conference organizer, the number one industry in Sullivan Country is agriculture, the land is still affordable compared to other places, a great place to invest in a farm, food entrepreneurs, close to the urban market, incubator for agriculture to grow, product development, marketing,Making These Ideas Work! (23:08)
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mobile cheese truck, JUFF Radio, raw milk farmer in upstate New York, the commodity market and pricing is a crime, US Department of Agriculture, farmers are hoping for value added products to pay their bills, John Boy's Farm, there are 25 dairy farms in Sullivan County, average herd size is under 50, demand is not the issue, the issue is supply, NYU alone could buy all that cheese, local processors, farmland protection, there are plenty of good models out there, Steven Schmoeller, cheesemobile, Heritage Foods USA, American Indians, black farmers, Pigford Case, great dairy farmers dont always make great cheese makers, institutional procurment,Mario Fantasma of Paradise Locker Meats Joins the Conversation (24:35)
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waste created from slaughterhouses, underbelly of food processing facilities, waste gets picked up by a rendering company, heart, tongue, oxtail, the actual guts are not sellable, what gets done with it?, MAMP, Missouri Association of Meat Processors, animal parts rendered into bio diesel fuel, the average hog produces 30 pounds of waste to be converted, it will be separated and put into different categories, tonsils, SRM, BRE, rendering companies, AAMP, HAACP, regulations, verification changes, small slaughterhouses will be put out of business with these new regulations, zero pathogen growth, food safety system, USDA Agricultural Conference, Paradise Locker Meats, Mario Fantasma,James W. Morris, PhD & Jeff Kapell of Bion Technology (27:02)
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Bion Technology, James W. Morris, Chief Technology Officer, Jeff Kapell, Project Development of Renewable Energy, waste management, livestock waste is the biggest enviornmental problem facing animal agriculture, feeding operations, Omnivore's Dilmena, confined area feeding operations, CAFO, pollution, envorinmental waste management, Bion Technology uses microbial process, human waste, conventional technologies, costs way more than Bion Technologies, model developed around the commodity facilities, they need to be housed in a situation where manure can be routinely removed, enables control and treatment of the nutrients, greenhouse gasses, feedlots, E Coli, how do you address the environmental impact on a per head basis, housing design and infrastructure, how have big companies responded?, added value product line, traceability, from cradle to grave, premium pricing, ethanol model, industrial ecology, Cattle News Network, www.meatingplace.com,Turning Livestock Waste Into Energy (29:56)
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72,000 slots is a big CAFO, turn waste into residuals, environmental benefits of ethanol, offsetting fossil fuel use, it requires 4 million BTU's to finish one dried ton of distiller grains, changing the commodity market, environmental policy laws, tax credits for reduced energy or emissions, James T. Martin, all industrial complexes need to build the environmental cost into their cost of doing business, offsetting energy, thermal energy from natural gas, cow produced methane, is this because they are finished on an unnatural diet?, reducing nitrous oxide, Volatile Organic Compounds, Joel Salatin, our agricultural exports are $30 billion of our GDP, waster water treatment plants, nutrient trading program, nitrogen credits, Total Maximum Daily Loads, Bion has patents in place, saving taxpayers and the environment, invest in Bion Technology!, NIMBY, futurist, ammonia, VOC's, BET, TMDL,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/07/2010 12:00PM
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On a very important episode of The Main Course, professor Dickson Despommier discusses population growth and food production and explains how vertical farming might save us all. Also on the show, Jennifer Nelkin and chef Matt Hamilton.
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The Main Course Introduction (9:40)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Dickson Farmstand Meats, structural images for urban farming, tall towers, hydroponically fueled, Brooklyn Grange, Roberta's, Heritage Radio Network, Martha Stewart, New York Times,Matt Hamilton of Belcourt (25:00)
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Toyota, foreign corporations, car industry, mustard, herbs, spices, Matt Hamilton, chickens, eggs, cows, Utica, Long Island, Rhode Island red hen, french bistro, East Village, small menu, wine, Paul Grimes, the culture of food, food politics, Bobo, Queens, Dairyland, red at the bone, Prune, Roberta's, Yelp,Compromise in the Restaurant Industry (26:50)
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the Heritage Radio Network website now has a commenting function, chick peas, compromise in the restaurant industry, practicality, organic products, commodity, farmers market, milk, us against them approach, Virginia, Mumbai, Southeast Asia, Marine Corps, Judy Rogers, Alice Waters, fast sex and slow sex, Fairway Market, Mexican olive oil, food quality, Chinese restaurants, New York Noodle Town, Peking Duck House, braised short ribs, San Francisco, Quince, Michael Tusk, portion size, handmade pasta, Trump building, Balthazar, Automat,Dickson Despommier on Population Growth and Food Production (26:32)
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Dickson's Farmstand Meats, Super Bowl, highway commission, Indianapolis, major highways, controlled environment agriculture, Jen Nelkin, http://gothamgreens.com/, vertical farming, hydroponics, Scott Stringer, global warming, Africa, water supply, hyena, we headed south, bone eaters, marrow, farming, domesticated animals, neanderthals, Jared Diamond, Quest For Fire, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Richard Wrangham, Middle East, oasis, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, irrigation projects, Michael Pollan, humans have rearranged the landscape in our favor, Copenhagen, climate summit, ethanol, corn, subsidized, oil, harnessing fuel, energy, internal combustion engine, alcohol, Henry Ford, tractor, dynamite, end of slavery, the perfect storm for farming, NPK, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, urea, when did the first agricultural revolution end?, it began 12000 years ago, it ended in 1940, The Grapes of Wrath, Neil Young, The World Without Us, Alan Weisman, vertical farming is a radical solution to these problems, Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, over population, open door immigration policy, labor force,Jen Nelkin Explains How Vertical Farming Can Save Us (17:45)
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lettuce, bibb salad, Roberta's, how can vertical farming help, Jenn Nelkin, Jennifer Nelkin, psychological advantages, vertical farming is expensive, Gotham Greens, retrofitting buildings, a lot of technical skill is required, power requirements, closed system, half an acre produces 50000 pounds of crops a year, the return will be very high on the investment, venture capitalists, seasonality, locavores, hydroponic tomatoes, sweeping statements can't tell you anything, some hydroponic produce tastes terrible, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, NYSERDA, solar, www.gothamgreens.com,Having Our Cake & Eating It Too (21:50)
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how can we have our cake and eat it too?, quality food at a good price point grown sustainably, factory food production system, hydroponic farming, crop viability, prototypical vertical farming project, Monsanto, government subsidies, synthetic fertilizer, recycling nutrients, germination, automated growth systems, harvesting, Seinfeld, research and development, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, New Jersey Institute of Technology, politicians, green collar jobs, employment opportunities, consumer groups, Ghana, Niger, floods, droughts, locusts, Iceland, geothermal energy, food security issues, livestock, the average farmer in the US makes $10000 dollars a year, small farms, President Barack Obama, taxpayers, farm bill was $300 billion dollars,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
