Tue June 26, 2012  App Will Match Farmers With Meat Distributors
Originally published on Tue June 26, 2012 7:25 am    And many
people want to carve out a slice of the national meat market -
that includes people who would like to sell you locally grown
meat.   A company from Kansas City - now, there's a city that
knows meat - is developing an application, or app, for
smartphones. Nathan Jones wants to help local farmers find
distributors.  NATHAN JONES: You've got a lot of folks picking
up the phone trying to find each other. And what we hear from
both sides of the equation, surprisingly, is, you know, I'm
really looking for more farms when we talk to distributors. And
the farms say, you know, I'm really looking for more independent
distributors, and I can't find them.  INSKEEP: The company Ag
Local intends to bring them together, starting in New York and
San Francisco.  MONTAGNE: Jones hopes eventually to get
information to consumers, locavores who want to eat locally
produced, sustainable food.  JONES: Surp