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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.
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 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.
Paula Hawkins, the feisty, self-described "housewife from Maitland" who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died Friday. She was 82.
Making art from things that would have otherwise ended up as trash supports one of Metro Justice's values --- and helps round out their Alternative Fair, which will run today and Saturday at the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 South Winton Road.
STARKVILLE — Collaboration between a Mississippi State University (MSU) research agronomist and Georgia’s self-proclaimed “sodfather” may offer a viable grassy feedstock to capitalize on sustainable bioenergy production.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet met at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
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.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
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.
A new report showing that nationwide food insecurity has increased reflects what the local food bank has been experiencing in recent years. "I'm afraid I wasn't [surprised,]" said Mary Anne Hughes, executive director of the Community Food Bank in San Benito County (formerly Community Pantry.)
Cargill is being sued for $100 million for selling E. coli-tainted hamburger in 2007, which left a 22-year-old dance instructor from Cold Spring, Minn. paralyzed.
Ah, the greens. They're not just treehuggers anymore. They've been browbeating us to recycle, eat soy, save energy, drive less, ride the bus, and a thousand other ways to "act local" for many years now.
WASHINGTON----The Biotechnology Industry Organization today applauded the announcement of over $600 million in grants and loan guarantees to help build 19 new biorefinery projects to produce advanced biofuels and biobased chemicals from renewable feedstocks.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Friday it will spend $564 million to speed up construction of 19 biorefineries that will turn agriculture and forest waste into diesel fuel. The list of projects:
In Bolivia's biggest municipality, a scrub-brush expanse of cattle ranches and hardscrabble farms, Sunday's national elections aren't all about Evo Morales.
Impatience with the glacial pace of global free trade negotiations prompted calls this week for the Doha round to be smashed into smaller and more digestible mini-deals that could be agreed quickly.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Wheat declined for a fourth straight day on concern global stockpiles will rise through the next season as demand lags behind production.
GRANBY — The town’s Agricultural Commission has applied for a grant they hope will help encourage locals to purchase some of their food from local farms.
The ancient chestnut tree that cheered up Jewish teenager Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis is dying, but thanks to a planting campaign now under way its descendants will live on around the globe.
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