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Organic farmer learn to network

The Ames Tribune - Sun Dec 6, 10:11 am ET

Organic 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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Clarence Petty, conservationist, 104, dies
UPI - Mon Dec 7, 1:44 am ET
CANTON, N.Y., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Clarence Petty, who advocated tirelessly for the preservation of the Adirondack Mountains, died at his Canton, N.Y., home, his family said. He was 104.
UPPER FREEHOLD: Farmland byway subject of DOT meeting next week
The Messenger-Press - Mon Dec 7, 1:43 am ET
The state Department of Transportation will hold a public information meeting Thursday to present information to residents, officials and the business community about the townshipâs Historic Farmland Byway.
Yard and Garden: A guide to choosing the best live Christmas tree
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - Mon Dec 7, 1:43 am ET
There’s probably no better holiday aroma, unless it’s the smell of cookies baking, than the “live Christmas tree.” I like putting my Christmas trees up early so it is almost impossible for us to have a live tree.
A guide to area Christmas tree farms
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - Mon Dec 7, 1:42 am ET
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Sport fishers land some big ones
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Mon Dec 7, 1:42 am ET
Conservancy lauds license rule change, new fundraising stamp.
‘Ghost traps’ Long lost fishing gear keeps catching lobsters
Journal Inquirer - Mon Dec 7, 1:38 am ET
A washed-up lobster trap and tangled line sit on a beach in Biddeford, Maine. Fishermen have been losing and discarding nets and traps for as long as they've plied the world's seas.
Delegates to travel to Chicago for annual meeting
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - Mon Dec 7, 1:38 am ET
Coles County Farm Bureau will have three voting delegates at the Illinois Farm Bureau annual meeting this year in Chicago. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Saturday through Tuesday.
Technology and feeding the world
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier - Mon Dec 7, 1:37 am ET
Feeding the world in 2050 is going to be a big job and the World Summit on Food Security clearly pointed out that the job must be accomplished through reliance on technology.
Repelling Asian carp on Great Lakes
The Indianapolis Star - Mon Dec 7, 1:37 am ET
Voracious Asian carp threaten Great Lakes' ecosystem, $7B fishing industry.
Chicken of the sea? Tuna farming getting a boost
AP via Yahoo! Finance - 7 minutes ago
Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild.
Cultivating a culture of health & wellness - a prescription with priceless results
New Hampshire Business Review - 16 minutes ago
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.
Mixed reviews for Christie environmental group
Mt. Olive Chronicle - 36 minutes ago
MENDHAM TWP. – The appointment of an outspoken opponent of the state Highlands Act along with the number of builders and engineers on Gov.-elect Christopher Christie’s environmental transition team drew mixed reactions from officials and environmental activists.
Bad economy slows grape contracts
The St. Helena Star - 1 hour 53 minutes ago
For the first time in the 30 years that Bill Blau has lived and grown grapes in the Calistoga Appellation, he did not sell his fruit this year. Consequently, 130 tons of high-quality merlot grapes will become premium mulch.
THURSDAY UPDATE: Calistoga wins AVA status
The St. Helena Star - 1 hour 53 minutes ago
The battle of Calistoga ended Thursday with a federal decision to grant a new American Viticultural Area appellation to Calistoga, forcing one local winery to change its business.
AP ENTERPRISE: Timber law becomes vast entitlement
KING5 Seattle - 1 hour 55 minutes ago
RESERVE, N.M. (AP) — A federal program that began as a safety net for Pacific Northwest logging communities hard-hit by battles over the spotted owl in the 1990s has morphed into a sprawling entitlement — one that ships vast amounts of money to states with little or no historic connection to timber, an analysis by The Associated Press shows.
Thieves take a shine to solar panels
The American Canyon Eagle - 1 hour 57 minutes ago
Solar energy is hot. Not just with wineries attempting to lessen their carbon footprints — but also with thieves. Numerous Napa Valley wineries have been victimized by thieves lurking in the night and stealing their solar arrays.
The Power of Cheese
Everett Herald - 1 hour 57 minutes ago
Blessed are the cheesemakers: A Wisconsin cheesemaker is selling 1,200 pounds of a 15-year-old cheddar cheese. Despite the $50-a-pound price tag, the sharp cheddar is selling well.
DNA links shark fins from Atlantic to China
Sun-Sentinel - 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Nova scientists spot endangered hammerheads Scientists at Nova Southeastern University have penetrated the secrecy of the vast Hong Kong seafood market, using DNA to show that shark fins on sale there came from endangered hammerheads thousands of miles away.
Farmers hope for aid
The Clarion-Ledger - 2 hours 28 minutes ago
This year has been one of the worst Matthew Boyd can remember in his last decade of farming.
S.W. wolf project at crossroads
The Durango Herald - 2 hours 40 minutes ago
ALBUQUERQUE - A decade has passed since the federal government began returning endangered Mexican wolves to their historic range in the Southwest. It hasn't worked out - for the wolves, for ranchers, for conservationists or for federal biologists.

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