Organic farmer learn to network
The Ames Tribune - Tue Dec 8, 6:37 am ETOrganic farmers, business representatives and educators came together on Friday and Saturday to exchange ideas at the ninth-annual Iowa Organic Conference.
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Tags track crab movement
The World - 6 minutes agoCrab fishermen: If your haul includes a tagged crab, congratulations! You just scored $20.
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State: Staff cuts may weaken logging law
The World - 8 minutes agoPORTLAND (AP) — Oregon’s landmark law protecting water and wildlife habitat on private timber land may become voluntary guidelines if enforcement staffing is cut further, state foresters say.
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Man On Death Row For 32 Years Can Appeal & Nightly Roundup
KERA North Texas - 10 minutes agoAn appeals court is allowing one of the state's longest-serving death row inmates to proceed with claims that he had poor legal help and is mentally impaired and ineligible for execution.
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Settlement talks set in Indian farmers lawsuit
The World - 10 minutes agoBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has approved settlement talks in a decade-old discrimination lawsuit filed by American Indians against the U.S. Agriculture Department.
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Sri Lanka Says 94,000 Tamil War Refugees Remain in Transit Camp
Bloomberg - 11 minutes agoDec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka says 94,000 civilians remain in the main transit camp in the north as the government tries to meet a January deadline to settle all displaced people held since the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels in May.
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Cultivating a culture of health & wellness - a prescription with priceless results
New Hampshire Business Review - 13 minutes agoFind 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.
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US plan for wild horse round-up faces opposition
The World - 13 minutes agoSPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A government plan to round up and relocate thousands of wild horses in the West faces opposition from advocates who say the proposal is inhumane and unnecessary.
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Master gardener signups accepted
Examiner - 14 minutes agoFREEHOLD - The Monmouth County Master Gardener program is accepting applications for 2010. The deadline to apply is Jan. 4. Master Gardeners are experts in all things related to home gardening in Monmouth County.
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County proposes park swap to boost expo center renovation
Salina Journal - 14 minutes ago12/8/2009 DAVID CLOUSTON Saline County commissioners say their mandate was made clear in a recent survey regarding the Saline County Livestock and Expo Center: Most respondents favored the expo center staying in Kenwood Park, and that existing buildings be repaired.
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Pamlico expands water improvement plans
New Bern Sun Journal - 18 minutes agoBAYBORO — Plans to improve water pressure in the southwestern section of Pamlico County have been altered to serve more residents and add facility improvements in the northeastern end of the county as part of a $5 million project.
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Walden, Schrader, Baird offer forest management bill
The Oregonian - 18 minutes agoA bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Republican Greg Walden and Democrat Kurt Schrader offer legislation they say will restore health to sickly national forests while boosting the local economies. Environmental groups are already wary.
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Havelock sewer issues topic of meeting today
New Bern Sun Journal - 18 minutes agoHAVELOCK — Sewer capacity matters will dominate a special work session of the Havelock Board of Commissioners at 5 p.m. today at Havelock City Hall. Havelock is permitted to discharge about 1.9 million gallons of treated wastewater per day into Slocum Creek.
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Proper livestock handling program presented in Dunlap in December
Denison Bulletin & Review - 20 minutes agoThe Dunlap Livestock Auction, Inc. will offer a free program on a key industry concern: proper cattle handling methods.
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Iowa Ag Secretary to visit Ida Grove, Denison and Manning on December 15
Denison Bulletin & Review - 21 minutes agoIowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey will visit Ida, Crawford and Carroll counties on Tuesday December 15.
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City a Quarter of the Way to Tree Planting Goal
YourNabe.com - 23 minutes agoSo far, approximately 250,000 trees have been planted citywide as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Million Trees program, which aims to add that many trees to the city landscape, both in parks and on streets, by the year 2017.
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Senior Adult Services celebrates move to Farmers Branch
The Carrollton Leader - 24 minutes agoSenior Adult Services, a nonprofit that has helped meet the needs of seniors and caregivers in the community for more than 30 years, held a grand opening and open house event to celebrate their relocation from Carrollton to the Professional Plaza I building at the Texas Hospital for Advanced Medicine in Farmers Branch.
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Bandon Pacific, Inc. to Appeal Excessive Fine for Self-Disclosed Action
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 27 minutes agoBANDON, Ore.----Bandon Pacific, a subsidiary of Pacific Seafood Group and a small retailer and seafood processor facility in Bandon, Ore., has been issued a proposed fine from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality .
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It’s wine season in South America
The Edmond Sun - 29 minutes agoAs all folks know, the seasons south of the equator are reversed from ours here in the northern hemisphere. So as we ease into the arms of Old Man Winter our friends from the south are enjoying the end of spring and moving into summer.
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A trip to the Christmas Tree Farm
WJHG Panama City - 34 minutes agoThey say buying your Christmas tree from a farm helps local agriculture. Andrew Colin is one of the farmers at the Strickland and Davis Christmas Tree Farm and thinks it adds to the "Christmas experience"
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Cornell economist: More federal stimulus funding needed to turn economic tide
Elmira Star-Gazette - 34 minutes agoWe may have made some progress since the U.S. economy was gripped by a crippling recession in late 2008, but one of Cornell University's leading experts warns that the climb out of the financial hole will likely be a long and arduous one, spanning 2010 and beyond.
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Fighting to keep above the waves
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Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia’s farmland
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