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Farmer and cheesemaker Lisa Schwartz will offer tastings of her prized cheeses and sign copies of her memoir, “Over the Rainbeau: Living the Dream of Sustainable Farming,” during a book signing from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, December 5, at Elm Street Books.
Producers and consumers of organic foods from Iowa and surrounding states will gather at the ninth annual Iowa Organic Conference Friday, Dec. 4, and Saturday, Dec. 5.
A Minnesota woman who became severely ill from an E. coli infection after eating a tainted hamburger sued a division of agribusiness giant Cargill on Friday for $100 million.
A Minnesota woman who became severely ill from an E. coli infection after eating a tainted hamburger is suing a division of agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. for $100 million.
Many grass-roots food groups have formed recently in the Bay Area with the goal of connecting people to one another, and to the producers who feed them.
As climate change accelerates, so too will hunger, poverty, and perhaps even social unrest.
Find out what some progressive companies are doing to keep employees healthy and productive while controlling their health care costs. The 2009 NHBR Health Care Forum, sponsored by MVP Health Care , addresses the new connections between nutrition, lifetime wellness and its positive impact on health care cost trends.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is advising consumers to avoid drinking any remaining Minnesota Harvest brand apple cider from an orchard in Jordan, Minn. Lab tests found the cider was contaminated with a type of mold toxin. The agriculture department... United States Department of Agriculture - United States - Cider - Fruit - Minnesota
We want you to nominate your local farmers, favorite slow food chefs, or most inspiring food industry leaders for the 2010 Growing Green Awards.
Logos Technologies, Inc. and EdeniQ, Inc. announced today that they have been awarded a $20.4 million grant to modify and operate a pilot-scale bio-refinery plant to produce low-cost ethanol bio-fuel from cellulosic feedstock, such as corn stover and switch grass.
The wines regularly outperform the world's best producers in blind tastings. But how do they stand up against their neighbors?
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet issued a declaration on climate change after an outdoor meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest, in a region where shrinking glaciers threaten rivers essential to development in China, India and Pakistan.
A leading livestock market expert warned Kansas cattlemen Friday that the industry will continue to be tough and urged them to take advantage of any narrow profit margins they can find.
(Corrects date of Maldives meeting in seventh paragraph.) Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet met at the Mount Everest base camp to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
China has more than a billion people, and counting. It also has shrinking acreages of arable land, rising pollution, and growing consumer concern about food safety.
Thursday, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, chaired by Congressman Tim Holden of Pennsylvania, continued its review of climate change issues by examining the costs and benefits of agriculture offset proposals.
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
American ingenuity is alive and well. Or at least it's alive, as evidenced by such recent US inventions as Bacconaise, Snuggies, and credit default swaps....
The demand for food is growing and according to news reports, food banks across the country are seeing many new faces needing help.
The conference addressed production and handling of bio-mass feedstock’s, algae oil production and utilization, as well as developments in bio-energy.
The fungus Ascochyta rabiei threatens chickpea crops the world over. But now this blight-causing pathogen could meet its match in Aureobasidium pullulans, a rival fungus that Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are investigating as a biocontrol agent.
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