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Producers and consumers of organic foods from Iowa and surrounding states will gather at the ninth annual Iowa Organic Conference Friday, Dec. 4, and Saturday, Dec. 5.
With Facebook and MySpace providing the wind beneath their wings, a flock of online game startups have soared in one of Silicon Valley's success stories during the recession. Poll: What's your favorite Facebook game?
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Soybeans gained in Chicago, reversing an earlier decline, after China said imports this month may rise to an all-time high.
A man dove face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in waters off northeast Australia and medics flew him to a hospital intensive care unit to treat the potentially fatal sting, officials said Friday.
The Department of Agriculture has acknowledged that policies have unjustly hurt minority farmers. So why stiffarm farmers seeking justice today?
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India, harvesting its smallest rice crop in seven years, plans to increase purchases from local farmers to avoid imports that are as much as 73 percent more expensive, said a government official.
Recently re-elected Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling told Virginia farmers and agribusiness representatives Monday that the McDonnell administration will work with them to keep agriculture viable in the commonwealth.
Terri Lamers has been working with the Norwood-Redvale Livestock Club for four years, and she is still raising the bar and being surprised at what the kids are learning.
The Root River watershed in Houston and Fillmore counties is among 41 watersheds in 12 states selected for a U.S. Department of Agriculture project to stop agricultural runoff into the Mississippi River.
Ken Beck isn't much of a golf fan, but the 48-year-old corn farmer was a relieved to have Tiger Woods' troubles to talk about Thursday.
Sen. Tom Udall says New Mexico ranchers and livestock producers who suffered from droughts and wildfires in 2008 should apply for federal aid before Dec. 10.
French Catholic priest Edward Sorin arrived in Indiana with the confidence of a young man who didn't know what he was facing.
A Terre Haute native, 49-year-old Erin Soto now oversees a federally-funded foreign aid office in India that works to lift people out of poverty.
By: Sarah Rajewski Brett Hunter had never even held a microphone before Thursday. When he got up to give his persuasive speech in front of about 60 people in Forum Hall in the K-State Student Union, he described the feeling as “hectic.” “I tried to stay ca...
Summer hogs the seasonal food spotlight, but winter offers plenty of warm fare that banishes the cold-weather blues.
Terry Baker made a tough call. The director of the Caring Cupboard in Palmyra chose to not order a lot of milk last week because the food pantry was only open one day. He quickly realized he had made the wrong decision.
The United States Department of Agriculture announced this week the designation of 24 North Dakota counties as primary natural disaster areas because of losses caused by the combined effects of drought, frost, cool temperatures, excessive rain and late-season snowfall, flooding, hail, and weather-related losses from insects and disease that occurred this year.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s economic growth will probably accelerate to 2.5 percent this year from 1.7 percent in 2008, as the short rainy season helps to ease a three-year drought and boost agriculture, Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta said.
A small Sunday farmers’ market on the south side of the lake.
Kentucky's slumping horse industry appears on pace to be overtaken by poultry farming as the king of the state's agricultural sector, economists said Thursday.
RALEIGH, NC (December 3, 2009) - Two of North Carolina’s most prestigious hospitals have added local flavor with a global purpose to their culinary offerings by including a unique local brand of coffee on their menu.
Boston Globe - By Stephanie McCrummen - Nov. 29 (News) - In recent ...
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