Regulators Offer Competitors, Farmers and Activists a Platform to Gripe About Crop Biotech Giant Wall Street Journal By Scott Kilman Crop biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. has the most at stake in the first of an unprecedented series of public meetings that the antitrust wing of the Justice Department is...
Examiner.com Seattle Pet Laws Examiner: Jean-Pierre Ruiz In testimony before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Dr. Dean Wyatt testified as to how the agency supports unhealthy practices at the national slaughterhouses and endangers the nation’s meat food supply. Dr. Wyatt, a public health supervisory veterinarian with...
Wall Street Journal By Lauren Etter ARROW ROCK, Mo. — This tiny historic town has emerged as a battleground over rules that agricultural groups say have hog-tied big pig farms. In 2007, residents of the town of 79 filed a lawsuit to stop a farmer who wanted to build...
News of the North . net MADISON – Gov. Jim Doyle announced that Wisconsin is second in the nation in the number of organic farms, according to numbers released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural (USDA) Statistics Service. “Farming is the heritage and the future of Wisconsin,...
Longtime organic farmer, journalist, Inspector, community leader, and raconteur, Steve Sprinkel (and Cornucopia board member) makes a cameo appearance on CNN as the farmer, along with his wife,, Olivia Chase, in the up-and-coming restaurant the Farmer and Chef, in Southern California. Sure does look good to us Northerners...
The Detroit News Jennifer Youssef After using conventional farming techniques for years, Jim Koan of Almar Orchards in Flushing wanted to try growing his apples and animals in a more natural way. He eliminated synthetic sprays and drugs and began incorporating natural methods to control pests, fertilize plants and...
The Center for Food Safety Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and conclusions of...
Associated Press (via Yahoo news) By JEFF BARNARD PHILOMATH, Ore. – Organic farmers fear this year’s spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to persuade a federal judge this week to halt the plantings...
The Washington Post By David A. Fahrenthold A new study has found that male frogs exposed to the herbicide atrazine — one of the most common man-made chemicals found in U.S. waters — can make a startling developmental U-turn, becoming so completely female that they can mate and lay...
The Ceres Trust The Ceres Trust will again commit to first-year funding of at least $500,000 in Organic Research Initiative competitive grants in 2010. These grants will be made to universities and other nonprofit institutions in the 12-state region to support organic research projects for up to three years...
Inside This Issue: USDA Establishes Strong New Organic Standards for Pasture and Livestock * Genetically Modified Alfalfa Threatens Organic Agriculture * USDA Seeking Comments on Finish Feeding of Organic Beef and Ruminants * Visit With Cornucopia Staff at the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference — Feb 25-27 in LaCrosse,...
The following comments concern the potential deregulation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered alfalfa. They are provided by Jim Munsch, a certified organic beef farmer and The Cornucopia Institute’s key advisor on this important issue. We are posting these as an aide to others still composing comments to the USDA and...
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