Organic Dairy: Make an Informed Choice
September 11, 2026
Yes, and Why Humanity Should be Petrified Living Maxwell By Max Goldberg The more time that you spend in the organic industry, the more you learn about what is truly going on and what you find is pretty scary. While I try to remain as optimistic as possible, the reality ...
LaCrosse Tribune (WI) The National Farmers Union has agreed to intervene in a federal court case that seeks to block implementation of new U.S. meat label rules. “We are intervening in this lawsuit in order to stand up for the USDA’s final Country-of-Origin rule,” said Darin Von Ruden, president of ...
Two decades of plummeting population halves number of key species, adversely affecting bees, birds and biodiversity – study The Guardian By Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent Europe‘s grassland butterfly population has plummeted in the past two decades, new research published on Tuesday shows, with a near halving in the numbers of ...
The Rodale Institute celebrates the success of its 30-year Farming Systems Trial. Organic Gardening When rain gets scarce, we turn a tap, and water flows readily from hoses and sprinklers in yards across the nation, making it easy for us to take the resource for granted. But with climatologists predicting ...
Cover crops can slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests, and bring a host of other benefits to farms across the country. North Central SARE Cover crops can slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many ...
Plan to crossbreed crops with their wild cousins to help boost resistance to climate change The Independent By Tom Bawden British researchers are leading an unprecedented global project to track down and store wild relatives of common crops – to help breed hybrids with higher yields that could be resistant ...
Industrialization has turned much of the Chinese countryside into an environmental disaster zone, threatening not only the food supply but the legitimacy of the regime itself Wall Street Journal By Josh Chin and Brian Spegele In Dapu, a rain-drenched rural outpost in the heart of China’s grain basket, a farmer ...
New York Times By Allison Kopicki Americans overwhelmingly support labeling foods that have been genetically modified or engineered, according to a New York Times poll conducted this year, with 93 percent of respondents saying that foods containing such ingredients should be identified. Three-quarters of Americans expressed concern about genetically modified ...
Organophosphates attack the nervous system in the same way as nerve agents like sarin. National Geographic By Ker Than The pesticides blamed for killing at least 25 children in India are widely used around the world, including in the United States, and health experts have raised safety concerns about this ...
“Nebraska leads the nation in organic livestock numbers and is one of the leading producers of grass-fed beef. In time we will lead the nation in producing and marketing humanely raised livestock.” – Kevin Fulton, rancher The Call of the Land By Steven McFadden Out of the smoldering rhetorical and ...
Major conglomerates claim their food is healthy. But they might have funded the study — and the feds barely care Salon By Gyorgy Scrinis Excerpted from “Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice” Food Technology is an industry journal that showcases the latest technologically modified and nutritionally engineered foods, ...
LA Times By Geoffrey Mohan Pesticides sprayed on crops could be making honey bees susceptible to a fatal parasite and contributing to recent declines in bee populations, according to a study. Researchers found 35 pesticides, some at lethal levels, in the pollen collected from bees servicing major food crops in ...
