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February 18, 2011

Neb.-based Promiseland sues USDA over suspension

The Belleville News Democrat By TIMBERLY ROSS, Associated Press Promiseland Livestock filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture from suspending ...

February 18, 2011

1,000 Coming to Granville for Ecological Food, Farm Conference

Newarkadvocate.com By Drew Bracken, Granville Sentinel correspondent Granville will be buzzing this weekend as almost 1,000 farmers, gardeners, researchers and consumers from all across Ohio ...

February 15, 2011

A Boost to Organic Farming

AgWeek By John Crabtree LYONS, Neb. — The steady growth of organic farming and ranching in North Dakota and the economic affects of organics on ...

February 11, 2011

U.S. Corn Pile Getting Squeezed to 15-year Low

Reuters By Sam Nelson CHICAGO (Reuters) – America’s supply of corn is expected to keep shrinking as offtake from ethanol makers expands, dropping the 2010/11 ...

February 9, 2011

Free trade: As U.S. corn flows south, Mexicans stop farming

McClatchy Washington Bureau Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers SAN JERONIMO SOLOLA, Mexico — Look around the rain-fed corn farms in Oaxaca state, and in vast ...

February 8, 2011

Skyrocketing Prices Point To Looming Global Food Crisis

NPR Michel Martin and Marilyn Geewax Listen to the Story Global food prices hit a record high in January, according to the United Nations’ Food ...

February 7, 2011

A Chance on Organic

AgWeb By: Top Producer Editors In an about-face, Tracy Doonan took his conventional Illinois grain farm off of chemicals and fertilizers and now grows organic ...

February 4, 2011

USDA Partially Deregulating Biotech Sugar Beets

Reuters By Carey Gillam and Chuck Abbott KANSAS CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. agricultural regulators on Friday said despite a court ban, they would allow commercial ...

February 3, 2011

USDA Asked to Decide: Does Organic Mean Outdoor?

Bloomberg.com CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — When the doors to the hen house open, the 14,000 chickens on Edwin Blosser’s organic egg farm make a mad ...

February 2, 2011

85 Groups to USDA: Make a Rule to Prohibit Meatpackers from Leveraging Captive Supply Livestock to Lower the Price-Discovery Market

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America – “Fighting for the U.S. Cattle Producer” Contact: R-CALF USA Communications Coordinator Shae Dodson-Chambers Washington, D.C. – Today, R-CALF USA, ...

January 26, 2011

GOP Farm Cuts Target Organic, Avoids Big Ag Subsidies

The Des Moines Register by Philip Brasher The grain and cotton growers that dominate U.S. farm subsidies came out unscathed in the first proposal from ...

January 26, 2011

Deadly Superbugs Are Spread Miles From Farms By House Flies

MailOnline By David Derbyshire Potentially deadly superbugs can be spread by flies from farms to people living miles away, scientists warned last night. Researchers have ...