American agriculture must move away from its focus on large, industrial farms to reverse environmental and human health problems, a private commission reported Tuesday.
Communist Cuba is opening up unused land to private farmers and cooperatives as part of a sweeping effort to step up agricultural production.
Homemade cow and goat cheese from Twin Oaks Farm and Creamery has been a staple at the Olympia Farmers market for three years.
Researchers have new evidence that as the density of salmon farms increases, they can drive nearby wild salmon runs to extinction. The problem is sea lice, a natural parasite that normally attaches to adult salmon with little ill effect and has little contact with vulnerable juvenile salmon. All that changes, however, when fish farms move in.
Southwest Georgia is one of the most productive agricultural regions in Dixie, but you wouldn't know it from the soil under the corn, peanuts and cotton. It can be sandy, it can be pebbly, and it doesn't hold water very well.
After years of resistance, a growing number of Amish families are putting their farms into land preservation programs.
At Rutgers University's animal farm, where future veterinarians train, male piglets are pulled squealing from their mother to be castrated — without anesthesia — before they are 10 days old.
Wind farms could generate up to 7 percent of U.S. electricity in 15 years, but scientists want more study of the threat the spinning blades pose to birds and bats.
Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.
The world's poorest need international help from a range of players, he said. "The United Nations cannot do it alone. We need you."
During one of his Special Order speeches on peak oil, Rep. Bartlett introduces thre companion legislation to S. 2821, the Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008, which would extend tax credits for renewable energy projects. S. 2821 has passed the Senate.
Betty lives in a small town, has 2 kids and is married to her husband Jeffery. One day she was walking through her local supermarket looking for her children's favorite fruity cereal. Once she had found it, she was zapped with a case of sticker shock.
The EU and traditional farming techniques are at odds, particularly in Eastern Europe.
Yet another sure sign that spring is here: It's time to sign up for a growing season's worth of fresh food from local farms offering community supported agriculture (CSA) shares.
Corn Ethanol is Killing the Gulf of Mexico Each summer an oxygen-starved, lifeless "dead zone" swells in the Gulf of Mexico from the toxic nitrogen fertilizer that runs off farms in Midwestern corn country.
As if a bear market, credit crunch, energy crisis and city financing emergency were not enough for one year, experts say the world is now facing down the barrel of the worst catastrophe of all: famine.
Under pressure from agriculture industry lobbyists and lawmakers from agricultural states, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to drop requirements that factory farms report their emissions of toxic gases, despite findings by the agency's scientists that the gases pose a he …
"When I pulled into a bee yard in Florida, there was 400 hives of bees that three weeks before that looked great. And all of a sudden, here we got roughly 400 beehives that are totally empty," he recalls.
MIDLAND, Mich. — This stuffing was hot, but not in the roasted turkey sense. Police have arrested a 32-year-old man they accuse of stealing 217 cases of Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix.
Over the last century about 75% of the world's crop varieties have been lost, data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggests.
There were strange goings on at the farm today when a flock of sheep made their own version of a crop circle. About 100 of the woolly creatures formed an orderly ring - baffling the farmer and passers-by.
Enough pointing fingers. Conservation and agricultural groups have created an alliance to find a solution to Virginia's farm runoff program.
A pen and ink drawing of this scene exists, apparently done first.
Panther continues to hang around farm with animals and children..
With pitchforks and heavy coats, three teenage cousins brave below-freezing temperatures and learn how to pitch straw into a sheep pen -- something their teacher, 27-year-old Matt McClain, has been doing since he was a kid.
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Well, it's obvious (to me, anyway) that our growing reliance on government has done a similarly clumsy job of helping those whom, for whatever reason, can't afford to maintain a roof over their heads.
This is the tale of a kitty's tail. There are two eight month old kitties, named Fluffy and Eve, who live with a Farmer and her husband on their farm in rural Virginia. Fluffy, the boy kitty, is an orange tabby with white feet.
The "calling" came on a Friday afternoon, spring, 1994, when the phone rang. After some time of discussing matters with the attorney on the other end of the line, he said something to the effect of "I think I have failed to communicate to you, Dr.
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Steve Scaroni, a farmer from California, looked across a luxuriant field of lettuce here in central Mexico and liked what he saw: full-strength crews of Mexican farm workers with no immigration problems.
While we worry about gas prices, the costs of milk, meat and fresh produce silently skyrockets. So like the end of cheap energy, is the era of cheap food also finally over?
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Elaine Clarke looks at the rows of strawberries at her feet. Some are fat and juicy, ripe to the point of bursting, but most are past their best.