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Ballots for the 2009 Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committee elections were mailed to eligible voters on November 6, 2009. All eligible farmers and ranchers are encouraged to get involved and vote in this year’s county committee election.
Elections for Farm Service Agency county committees are under way and Dec. 7 is the deadline for voters to return ballots to local FSA offices.
ROME (AP)--A U.N. agency says food prices in poor countries remain stubbornly high despite a good world cereal production this year. The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report released Nov. 10 that 31 countries still require emergency food assistance. The agency said that Eastern Africa in particular has suffered from drought and conflict, pushing an estimated 20 million ...
WASHINGTON (AP)--More than one in seven American households struggled to put enough food on the table in 2008, the highest number since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began tracking food security levels in 1995. That's 14.6 percent of U.S. households, or about 49 million people. The numbers are a significant increase from 2007, when 11.1 percent of U.S. households suffered from what USDA ...
ROME (AP)--Funding from an Islamic bank will help develop agriculture in poor countries, a U.N. food agency said ahead of a summit to discuss the so-far elusive goal of reducing the number of hungry people in the world. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which is hosting the three-day summit starting Nov. 16, said it had reached a deal with the Islamic Development Bank for $1 billion in ...
CORPUS CHRISTI —Here we go into the holiday season.Gift lists. Party planning. Juggling a festivity-heavy calendar while carrying on with work and school. Deep breath.For those of us lucky enough to complain about the hectic holiday season, the best antidote is helping our less fortunate neighbors. With a poverty rate of nearly 20 percent, according to 2007 figures from the U.S. Census Bureau ...
Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region's representatives said on Friday.
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 permanent darkness of the ocean depths is home to a far greater range of animals, from luminous jellyfish to tubeworms that live off oil seeping from the seabed, than previously thought, scientists said on Sunday.
More than a year after derivatives nearly sank AIG, policymakers in Washington are trying to defuse them. One of the leaders: Gary Gensler.
Jerry DeWitt remembers the exact date -- June 1, 1982 -- when meaningful work on sustainable agriculture began at Iowa State University.
NEW YORK -- The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving -- meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York's ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.
Standing in line at El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission on a cool, dreary morning could have made Catherine Shankle cranky and
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 47 national and state food and agricultural organizations Monday delivered a letter urging the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to rewrite pending food safety legislation.
BOSTON----Converted Organics Inc. announced that the Company is exhibiting its organic fertilizer products today at the California Association of Pest Control Advisers and the Organic Fertilizer Association of California Organic Seminar in Woodland, CA.
[AUSTIN - Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner, and Zack Wilson of the High Plains Food Bank in Amarillo is seeing more people asking for help.
It must be the holidays coming up — or it was just one of those weeks around here.
Five North Dakota ranchers and farmers have been named to serve on the state's Farm Service Agency committee.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP)--The federal government has delivered a record-setting $148 million in loans to Kansas farmers during the 2009 fiscal year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency in Kansas recently announced that the money went to about 1,300 family farmers. The loans were used for a range of purposes, including to help farmers plant and harvest crops, purchase livestock and ...
U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, is urging the public to sign a petition calling on Congress to extend Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) health benefit provisions.
NEW BRITAIN — While local food pantry resources are depleted due to a higher demand and less funding, children at the Boys & Girls Club donated canned goods to the Spanish Speaking Center’s food pantry Thursday.
New York Times - By Andrew Rice - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - Fearing ...
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