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October 21, 2011

Appalachian Harvest Looking for More Growers

The Kingsport Times-News Kingsport, TN Appalachian Harvest, a project of Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD), needs growers for organically-grown fruits, vegetables and herbs. According to ASD ...

October 20, 2011

State Department: Biotech Labeling Would Scare Consumers

The Des Moines Register by Philip Brasher The Obama administration shows no sign of changing the government’s position on labeling of biotech foods despite a ...

October 19, 2011

Jim Gerritsen: Organic Food Champion

by Staff, Utne Reader Jim Gerritsen was chosen as an Utne Reader visionary in 2011. Each year Utne Reader puts forward its selection of world ...

October 11, 2011

Genetically Modified Canola Goes Wild

‘Feral’ plants found growing along roads from North Dakota to Manitoba The Vancouver Sun By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News Genetically modified canola has escaped from ...

October 5, 2011

NOFA Celebrates Four Decades of Organic Farming and Advocacy

Brattleboro Reformer – Brattleboro, VT By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN WESTMINSTER — About 40 years ago a group of farmers got together, high in a field in ...

September 30, 2011

Rule Change Could Prompt Increase In Organic Hops

CBS News (link no longer available) (AP) TOPPENISH, Wash. — Call it a hops revolution. Northwest farmers have begun planting new varieties of the key ...

September 30, 2011

Market Watch: In Ojai, Hot Chiles and a Warm Story

The chair of Cornucopia’s board Steve Sprinkel is profiled in this story, along with his wife Olivia Chase. Los Angeles Times By David Karp Reporting ...

September 30, 2011

Monsanto Spent $1.7 Million Lobbying Gov’t in 2Q

CNBC WASHINGTON – Monsanto Co. spent $1.71 million in the second quarter to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure report. That’s much less ...

September 28, 2011

Study Debunks Myths on Organic Farms

The results are in from a 30-year side-by-side trial of conventional and organic farming methods at Pennsylvania’s Rodale Institute. Contrary to conventional wisdom, organic farming ...

September 23, 2011

Report: Taxpayer Subsidies for Junk Food Wasting Billions

CALPIRG San Francisco, CA – federal subsidies for commodity crops are also subsidizing junk food additives like high fructose corn syrup, enough to pay for ...

September 21, 2011

Technical Announcement:Widely Used Herbicide Commonly Found in Rain and Streams in the Mississippi River Basin

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (this link no longer available) Office of Communications and Publishing Paul Capel and Kara Capelli Glyphosate, also ...

September 21, 2011

Organic Farming Offers Alternatives to the Conventional

The Advocate of Westminster and Finksburg (link unavailable) By Rachel Hare, Advocate Staff Writer Carroll County Times Tom Reinhardt, of Westminster, stood beside a large ...