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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 wild stocks in jeopardy, tuna is becoming a cash crop for aquaculturists.
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.
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.
Organic farmers, business representatives and educators came together on Friday and Saturday to exchange ideas at the ninth-annual Iowa Organic Conference.
Hundreds of trees and shrubs will be planted along the Grand Central Parkway in Jamaica Estates in an effort to decrease pollution and noise, U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside) and city Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe announced Monday.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi River -- an unprecedented step that could disrupt the movement of millions of tons of iron ore, coal, grain and other goods.
After Juniper Park Civic Association President Robert Holden heaved dirt onto the base of a cherry tree Saturday morning, he put his shovel down, took a look around at the 20 or so people doing the same thing as him and smiled.
New studies show hunger is on the rise across the nation and food pantries in the city are being packed with hungry residents, but a Jamaica church said with hard work and help from the government, it is riding out the storm and helping hundreds of needy families.
Food pantries and service organizations are preparing to meet their highest demand over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with large numbers of residents out of work and struggling to get by.
Arapahoe County has planted 99 young hackberry, cottonwood and oak trees in Arapahoe County Community Park. A dozen of the trees were donated by Branch Out, a local tree nursery.
LAS VEGAS -- The best man usually isn’t invited to crash the honeymoon.
FOXBORO - Gloucester's last loss came on the field the Patriots call home, so amidst the swirling snow, the Fishermen were not in the mood for any deja vu. Gloucester...
In addition to monthly markets at Chestnut Square (Dec. 19, Jan. 30, Feb. 27), the McKinney Farmers Market will be at Adriatica in West McKinney from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday and Thursday.
First Baptist Church of Copan will be having their annual Christmas fellowship dinner today, immediately following the morning service. Church members have also been busy packing a box of goodies to be sent to their partnership mission team in Bosnia.
America needs a national economic goal, which begins with reforming the nation's trade policies that are hemorrhaging this country's jobs and treasure overseas, said Michael Stumo of the Coalition for a Prosperous America.
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.
The Boone City Parks Commission met Monday at the City of Boone Park Office to discuss Mayor John Slight’s proposal to scale back on tree planting so that the city can put more focus on maintaining the trees it currently has.
The Xenia Rural Water District Board of Directors met for its regular meeting Monday, Nov. 30, and like many of the meetings it has held over the past year, there were a lot of tough decisions and bad news to go around.
The University of Illinois Springfield Prairie Stars men’s basketball team got a real welcome to the Great Lakes Valley Conference on Saturday afternoon. The Stars hosted the Drury University Panthers, No. 15 in the NABC Division II Coaches Poll. It was the first true test for the Stars, who made the jump to NCAA Division II from NAIA Division I this season.
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.
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