Sunday, March 21, 2010
Conference talks localizing food How localizing food can transform communities is the main topic of the Food on the Table conference March 26-27 in Moscow, Idaho. It is sponsored by the nonprofit food and farming organization Rural Roots. Speakers include Janie Burns of New Plymouth, ...
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ARGUSVILLE, N.D. (AP) -- Some North Dakota farmers are in a race to combine corn before fields are flooded. Grain truck driver Dan Sheldon of Buffalo says corn is being harvested throughout eastern North Dakota. He says, "You got to get it when you can get it." The cor ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 4:28 PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- A rising dollar hit prices of many commodities Friday after concerns about the global economy pushed up demand for safe assets. More questions about the Greek government's financial problems and a surprise interest rate increase in India increased demand for the doll ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 4:28 PM
Northwest state agriculture directors are calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its methods for establishing no-spray buffers for Western state waterways. In setting buffers for the first group of pesticides reviewed under a court order, EPA failed to consider the economic i ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 3:09 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama promised to make overhauling the immigration system a top priority in his first year as president. He's now in Year Two, and the odds that he'll get to sign a bill before the November midterm elections appear long. Grass-roots activists ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:29 PM
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese fish dealers on Friday welcomed the rejection of a proposed trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna -- a prized ingredient of sushi -- while urging that existing quotas be more strictly enforced to protect the species from overfishing. Thursday's vote at a U.N. meeting in D ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:48 AM
KRAGNES, Minn. (AP) -- For farmer Brian Thomas, getting to town for errands is no simple matter these days as floodwaters cover fields and sections of country roads in the rural areas near Fargo, N.D. He wades through shallow rapids cascading across his driveway, then drives a mud-spatter ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:48 AM
EU says most chicken infected BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's food safety agency says most chicken sold in Europe is infected with bacteria that can cause food poisoning if the meat is not cooked thoroughly. In a report March 17, scientists said 76 percent of chicken they tested at slaught ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:09 AM
An environmental group has sued the Department of the Interior over its sage grouse ruling. In response to the department's decision that protection for the sage grouse is "warranted but precluded" the Western Watersheds Project sued in federal district court last week challenging the "precl ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:09 AM
A nonprofit organization that promotes healthy eating is urging fruit and vegetable producers and sellers to promote their own products through a nationwide contest. The Produce for Better Health Foundation's Your Healthy Life and You contest offers prizes for families who tell their best fruit an ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:09 AM
Rancher Wade King is worried about the bottleneck in the beef industry. Only a handful of meat companies stand between ranchers and consumers, giving beef packers undue command over the market, he said. "The cattle producer's share of the retail dollar continues to shrink," said King ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Hay exporter Rollie Bernth doesn't suffer from a deficiency of overseas customers. The problem is transporting his hay across the Pacific Ocean, said Bernth, president of the Ward Rugh hay company in Ellensburg, Wash. "We're not able to get hay shipped," Bernth said ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week renewed the argument that climate legislation can be crafted to benefit agriculture. Legislation can be crafted to "avoid unintended consequences and provide enormous benefits to our agricultural economy, and our environment," Vilsack said ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
With many consumers these days pondering where their food comes from, agriculture is eager to tell its story to the non-farm public. Spurred by legislative and economic challenges as well as marketing opportunities, many agricultural voices can be heard as farmers, ranchers and commodity ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., on March 17 unveiled a bill to reauthorize the child nutrition programs that would increase funding for those programs by $4.5 billion over 10 years. About $1.2 billion would go to increasing the number of children who receive food ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
ANKENY, Iowa -- Federal officials concerned about how much control a few corporations have over the nation's food supply pledged March 12 to begin a new era of antitrust enforcement, seeking to balance agricultural power between companies, farmers and consumers. More than 650 farmers, sla ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
The Pacific Northwest continues to have a strong presence in the National Association of Wheat Growers. Jerry McReynolds of Woodston, Kan., assumed the presidency of the association for a year-long term during the association's March 6 meeting at the 2010 Commodity Classic in Anaheim, Ca ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
A U.S.-funded wheat program is helping fight the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The program, Food Zone, distributes wheat seed -- the variety is Roshan 96 -- to roughly 33,000 farmers to help them switch from growing opium poppies. From December 2008 to August 2009, Michael ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
UN says 8.7 million people need food aid; some farmers sell directly to citizens GENEVA (AP) -- North Korea should let farms produce freely and allow food to be sold in local markets because the communist government cannot provide enough food for its people, a U.N. human rights investigator urg ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:35 AM
BAKERSFIELD, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont dairy farmer who was among those targeted in a federal crackdown on undocumented workers says he thought three illegal workers had proper documentation. Clement Gervais believes his family's farm has been cleared following the November inspection by immi ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
PALO CEDRO, Calif. -- Colony collapse disorder returned with a vengeance this winter, and beekeepers and researchers are still trying to nail down what's causing it. Queen bee breeder Shannon Wooten said he lost about 30 percent of his bees to the winter die-off, up dramatically from the ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
Groups urge CSP changes Family farm and conservation groups, including several West Coast organizations, are urging USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to make changes to the Conservation Stewardship Program and initiate 2010 sign-ups. The groups contend USDA is dragging its heels in implementing p ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
The U.S. International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency, has launched an investigation into the constraints faced by small- and medium-sized exporters. Such enterprises have been a major growth engine for jobs in the past 15 years, so U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk aske ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
A leader in Pacific Northwest wheat breeding is leaving Oregon State University. OSU wheat breeder Jim Peterson in May will become vice president of research for France-based farmer cooperative Limagrain Cereal Seeds. Peterson will help the company build a U.S. wheat breeding progra ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
The American Farm Bureau Federation is asking a federal district court to delay Obama administration changes to the H-2A foreign guestworker program. The organization and the North Carolina Growers Association filed a lawsuit March 12 in Greensboro, N.C., seeking a temporary restraining ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
Though U.S. dairy exports felt the effects of a crash in global markets, it wasn't as bad as industry insiders expected. "A year ago at this time, USDEC's economic analysis suggested overall volumes would drop 27 to 41 percent in 2009. But U.S. exporters retained more of their sales than ...
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