The Des Moines Register by Christopher Doering Source: NRCS WASHINGTON – The number of organic farms in Iowa is increasing as producers expand to meet surging demand for the specialty products, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. The state added 94 organic farms from 2008 to 2014 and had 612...
Beyond Pesticides (September 14, 2015) On Thursday September 10, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in a bench ruling, rejected the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit (Case3:15-cv-01690) that challenges the National Organic Program’s (NOP) failure to...
Fund-a-Farmer Project FACT is now accepting applications from livestock and poultry farmers for our Fund-a-Farmer grants. The Fund-a-Farmer Project provides grants to qualifying humane farmers who need assistance in improving the welfare of their farm animals. Grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded for projects that help farms transition to...
Huffington Post J.S. McDougall Source: Nicolas Raymond Regenerative agriculture is the dawn of planetary engineering. And that’s great news for the future of the planet. Here’s how I know. We have five hay fields on our farm. They are the kind of rolling, green, and gorgeous fields that are...
AgriPulse by Spencer Chase Source: Environmental Illness Network WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2015 – The California Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday a notice of intent to list glyphosate, one of the most widely-used herbicides in agriculture, and three other chemicals to a list of carcinogens under the state’s Proposition 65...
The Tampa Tribune by Yvette C. Hammett Source: Isaac Shepherd DOVER — Ronnie Young spent hours over the past couple of weeks knocking on neighbors’ doors. He was not making social calls. Young, a farmer in east Hillsborough County, was alerting neighbors that he was about to apply fumigant...
Supermarket Guru by Phil Lempert Check out this grocery store that’s come up with an innovative way for customers to meet their farmers! It’s nothing new that consumers these days want to know more about where their food is coming from, and who is responsible for growing it. Well...
by Jérôme Rigot, PhD Can we be sure that the “organic” in the USDA Certified Organic seal retains its meaning and remains true to its mandate of assuring consumers that food under this label is truly healthy and grown or raised with minimal impact to the environment and respects the...
YouTube by The Undercurrent Is the ‘old’ Monsanto, the one responsible for producing Agent Orange, PCB’s and DDT and a terrible record at covering up and denying the tragedies that have resulted from their use, the same as the ‘new’ Monsanto, the one at the forefront of research in...
The Guardian by Tom Levitt Source: Alex_Ewing9311 US food company Cargill wants to use expertise from the farmed salmon sector to help it produce more efficient and sustainable fish and chicken It is difficult to know which is moving faster: the debate around the ethics of farmed fish, or...
Independent Science News by Jonathan R. Latham, PhD cspB, from the Bacillus subtilis bacterium, inserted into the genome of corn plantsSource: BASF By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically Modified Organisms) as part of...
Reuters by Barbara Lewis Source: Scyrene BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Widely-used pesticides made by Bayer CropScience and Syngenta pose a risk to bees, the European Union’s food safety watchdog said on Wednesday, reinforcing previous research that led to EU restrictions. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which guides EU policymakers,...
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