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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 ...
Finding out where that bundle came from can help you not get burned by ash borers.
We need to wipe out hunger in America. It's a sin that it not only exists but is actually increasing in the richest nation on Earth.
DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey highlighted the important conservation work that has been achieved in Iowa during the last 70 years as part of Iowa Soil and Water Conservation Week. Governor Chet Culver has issued a proclamation recognizing Nov. 22-28 as Soil and Water Conservation Week.
TORRINGTON, Wyo. — Wyoming Air National Guard Brigadier General Don Haught will be grand marshal of the 2009 Torrington Veteran’s Day Parade.
Everyone knows that hunger is the feeling we get that signals us when we must eat. However, there are many that consider hunger a constant companion because there is no food. On Friday morning,...
Thanksgiving preparations have begun in the Milwaukee area. And many of the foods purchased at area farmers markets will be brought to the table with stories attached, or at least the name of the farm or local business that produced it.
The Spanish crew members of a tuna trawler who spent 47 days as hostages of Somali pirates before they were freed for a reported $3.3 million ransom returned home to emotional reunions at their home port Saturday.
By Emma Rose Johnson, Globe Correspondent The Coast Guard has reiterated its recommendation that more commercial fishing boats should be subject to regulations intended to prevent them from capsizing and sinking, a spokesman said today. The Costa & Corvo in...
A consumer as large as the dining hall can single-handedly put a lot of money back into the local economy and give a lot of local growers reason to increase their production.
Recovery Act: Water Management in California: Cyber Infrastructure for Irrigation Optimization
North Dakota Realtors are welcoming the continuation of a federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers and an expansion of that credit to other homeowners.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Indian rice imports next year will create a “fairly major swing” in global trade and push prices higher, commodities supplier Olam International Ltd. said.
Had enough of city life? Here at FarmVille, we're growing crops, tending to our animals, and building out our farms.
For some, standing in line for Thanksgiving donations is a necessity. For others it's an opportunity to take advantage of the system.
A group of musicians including Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp got together in St. Louis, Missouri recently and held a benefit concert to raise money for small farmers.
Three degrees of separation. That's all it took, the temperature difference between 95 and 98, to doom half of Annie Keegan Filion's brood of 400 turkeys earlier this year. Turkey poults are extremely sensitive to warmth, and only 3 degrees cooler made them chilly despite the heat.
Tulare, Calif., (AgPR) - The results are in for the highly anticipated 2010 Top-10 New Products competition, the winners of which will be showcased Feb. 9-11 during the 43rd annual World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif.
To see Charles Hill Carter Jr. entertaining guests on the lawn at historic stately Shirley Plantation on the James River was to see a Tidewater gentleman extending gracious hospitality at home. However, when there was a lull in the thousands of tourists who thronged through one of Virginia’s oldest plantations, the plain-spoken man of Charles City County with one foot in the 18th century and ...
CHIPLEY – James Alton Clemmons was presented with the Outstanding Farm Family award at Thursday night’s Farm-City Banquet at the Washington County Ag Center. The event was sponsored by the Washington County Farm Bureau. Photo gallery online The...
The Christmas shopping season arrived so early this year that Santa Claus and his reindeer found much of their rightful shelf space still occupied by Styrofoam jack-o'-lanterns and discount candy.Trees are already available in some places with Thanksgiving still several days away, and television viewers have already been treated to "Home Alone" for what is bound to be the first of a dozen ...
agweb.com - By Pam Smith - Nov. 18 (News Report) - The earthworm ...
Economist - Nov. 15 (Special Report) - In the Senate, however, ...
McClatchy - Nov. 02 (News Report) - Farm state senators and others ...
Huffington Post - By Aaron Gross - Oct. 26 (Review) - Over the ...
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