Stop GM Alfalfa! The National Farmers Union in Ontario has called for a national day of action for April 9, 2013 to stop the commercial release of GM alfalfa. On March 2, 2013 at the NFU Region 3 Convention/NFU-Ontario AGM passed the resolution: ”Be … Continued
FarmedHere’s CEO Jolanta Hardej runs the nation’s largest indoor vertical farm, which had its grand opening in Chicago this week. It’s an unlikely move for Hardej, whose only experience working in agriculture was tending to her grandmother’s farm in Europe as … Continued
The nation that brought us gross national happiness has turned their focus to diet and healthy farming with it’s most recent initiative. The constitutional monarchy of Bhutan which has around 700 thousand people was founded in, but it still … Continued
Excitement here is mounting as we wait for the UN officially to open the International Year of Quinoa in New York at 10 am EST, in just half an hour. To calm down, I had a quick look at FAO’s own paean to quinoa. Coming fresh to the subject, you cou…
The property Kevin Liefer and his son, Kirk, cultivate in southern Illinois has been expanding for decades without adding a single manager. These are boom times for farming and a bust for farm jobs. The 3,600 acres of mostly corn, … Continued
Shoppers looking for organic food may have to look a bit harder this year. When Congress enacted new farm bill legislation on Jan. 1, it cut virtually all funding for organic agriculture programs while retaining billions in subsidies that largely … Continued
ABC World News aired a story Tuesday night about a family near Romulus where the kids are exceptionally healthy. Find out why by checking it out….
Here’s a neat video by Ag Review:…
Scientist show why biodiversity benefits California almond pollination. The presence of wild bees was found to alter the behavior of honey bees and improve their pollination effectiveness. Furthermore, wild bees buffered pollination under high winds an…
There’s a lot of wasted food in the world, according to yet another study on the topic. This one, from the British-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers, estimates the loss at about 50 percent. About 4.4 billion tons of food is … Continued
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is muscling in on one of the fastest growing segments of American agriculture: local food. Wal-Mart says 11 percent of the produce sold in its stores nationwide comes from local farms, a large increase from … Continued
Organizations from across the country joined forces to announce today the formation of the Agriculture Workforce Coalition. AWC’s goal is to become a unified voice of agriculture and seek legislation that will ensure America’s farms, ranches and al…
Maybe it was his use of a snow metaphor in a drought year that made me think things are pretty darn bad. Sen. Pat Roberts, barnstorming through Kansas this week, cited the decline in the number of farmers in Congress … Continued
The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in the Corn Belt and a huge storm that caused broad devastation in the Middle Atlantic States, turns out to have been the hottest year ever … Continued
The United States Department of Agriculture is currently accepting claims from female and Hispanic farmers who believe the agency discriminated against them during farm loan programs. This claims process emerged after the courts rejected a class action lawsuit from the … Continued
