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Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region's representatives said on Friday.
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.
Five North Dakota ranchers and farmers have been named to serve on the state's Farm Service Agency committee.
Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural) evolution to adopt this habit and we are far from convinced that it is sustainable. Farming ants and termites had tens of millions of years to evolve their fungus ...
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — It will take more than just soil and water to support sustainable agriculture in Indian River County, but local officials are convinced it can be done.
Wearing a white kurta and a blue turban, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 77, appeared relaxed on the eve of his state visit to Washington, which takes place this week. Many Indians worry that the Obama White House, unlike the previous two American administrations, may tilt toward China instead of India. Singh sat down in his Delhi residence last week to discuss with NEWSWEEK's Lally ...
ST. Louis—The United Soybean Board (USB) and soybean checkoff fund tools that U.S. soybean farmers can use to help increase their profitability.
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.
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.
From highly regarded research magazines to late night comedy shows, Iowa State University professor Hans Van Leeuwen is turning a lot of heads.
Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.
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.
MINBURN, Iowa (AP) - Rick Hartmann's organic vegetable farm did not produce a single bushel of corn or soybeans, which account for the bulk of the federal crop subsidies paid to farmers in Iowa and across the Midwest. In fact, he has never signed up for a single farm program - until now.
By PAUL PAYNE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Despite a paltry market for costly poultry, slow-food advocates say free-range birds are better - on the palate and for the environment.
Austrian cattle farmers no longer have to travel long distances to sell or buy cattle: it can all be done at the click of a mouse, on a new auction website.
The industrial metals have performed well, since they benefit from both inflation fears and increased demand during the economic recovery.
Sun, Seawater and Microalgae Provide the Key to Energy Independence for Puerto Rico
When 90-year-old Sam Snipes was a boy in the 1920s, Falls Township was a bucolic place with about 2,500 people. Nearly all the land was occupied by farms.
Thousands of Spanish farmers on Saturday marched through the streets of Madrid, halting traffic to protest the low prices they receive for their produce which they say is leading them to financial "ruin."
Having an appreciation for Al Gore's commitment to science and advocacy of responsible policies on energy, the environment, and the economy, I was disappointed by his treatment of ethanol and other biofuels in his new book.
On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the new year. This year, the long tradition may get a little more difficult to observe.
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