Food Chain Radio Show #1,008 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Pests and Pesticides The Evolutionary Race Guest: Andy Dyer, Author Chasing the Red Queen Which will win the fight for our food? “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally

Food Chain Radio Show #1,007 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Some Good Earth – Farmland For Sale What factors give farmland value? Guests: Chuck Allen, Realtor, Keller Williams & Randy Dickhut, Vice President of Real Estate Operations, Farmers National Company “It is the end

Food Chain Radio Show #1,004 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Autism Antidote Can what we don’t eat be the antidote to autism? Guest: Katherine Reid, PhD Mother, Biochemist and Executive Director of UnBlindMyMind Brooke was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. She

Food Chain Radio Show #1,003  Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist To Label or Not Label GMOs Should the Federal Government support or prohibit the labeling of foods containing GMOs? Guests: Diana Reeves, Founder, GMO Free USA Not Available, Grocery Manufacturers Association This just in

    SANTA CRUZ >> Growing up in Montana and working summers hoeing weeds on area farms, Michael Olson would look up to see jets flying by thousands of feet overhead and wish he could be aboard one. The U.S. Navy finally took him away

Food Chain Radio Show #998 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Robotic Farm Equipment Will humans still farm in 2050? Guest: Attorney Roger Royce, Host of Silicon Valley’s AgTech Incubator and Conference Here is Michael Olson’s fundamental equation of agriculture:  Time + Money + Know-How

Michael Olson will broadcast the 1,000th edition of his nationally-syndicated Food Chain Radio Show January 31, 2015 at 9AM Pacific. The millennial edition will feature the economic viability of metropolitan (urban) agriculture.          

  Food Chain Radio Show #997  Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Grass Fed Beef Should beef be banned? Guest: Author, Rancher, Vegetarian Nicolette Hahn Niman Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production The federal government’s dietary guidelines, which govern school lunch and other

Food Chain Radio Show #996 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Industrial or Organic and Regenerative Farming Which agriculture is most productive: Industrial or Organic? Guests: UC Berkeley Conservation Biologist Lauren Ponisio This just in: USDA has approved Monsanto Corporation’s “Xtend” genetically-modified soybeans for commercial

Food Chain Radio Show #995 Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist Eating Out Who gets the money’s worth when we all eat out? Guests: Tom Bruce, Central Coast Food and Beverage They say we all, being average, spend $2,700 per year here in the United