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USDA to Fund Environmental Clean-up of Mississippi River
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week a new initiative to improve water quality and the overall health of the Mississippi River Basin funded...
Farmers Markets Double Nationwide with White House Next Location
On September 17th, 2009, a Fresh Farm Market will open by the White House in Washington, D.C.-- just weeks after President Barack Obama wished...
Tribute: Norman Borlaug, He Fed The World
Norman Borlaug, 95, who died Saturday night in Dallas, is credited with saving 1 billion lives from famine. His work creating high-yield crop varieties...
New Vaccine Could Save Bees from Colony Collapse Disorder
An Israeli company has developed a revolutionary new drug that could solve the problem of Colony Collapse Disorder, the disturbing syndrome that...
Heartland States Send National Guard to Aid Afghan Farmers
National Guard troops from a half-dozen heartland states are taking their civilian farming know-how to Afghanistan in a little-noticed aspect of the Obama administration’s...
G8 Pledge of $20B to Feed the Hungry also Promotes Peace and Stability
The annual G8 meeting, which wrapped up last week, has yielded pledges of $20 billion over three years to feed the hungry and mobilize...
MIT Roof Hosts Vegetable Gardens on Little-Used Garage
This summer, vegetables, flowers and herbs will take the place of some of the cars and trucks atop a MIT garage becoming the Institute's...
Obama Strengthens Food Safety, Animal Protection
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced two measures to protect the American people from disease and protect injured animals from abuse....
Younger Farmers Making a Comeback in Iowa
It comes as a pleasant surprise -- after years when thousands of farmers were driven off their land -- to find in the 2007...
US and EU Should Be High on Afghan Opium
US President Barack Obama has called for new ideas on the world's seeming intractable problems. Well here's one that could undermine the Taliban in...
Cows with Names Produce More Milk
In a study involving 516 dairy farmers in the UK, researchers found that treating the animals as individuals increased production. The...
UN Puts Together $10M Relief Package for Haiti
Two United Nations food agencies are putting together a $10.2 million package to help Haitian farmers devastated by recent hurricanes. The U.N. Food...
European Professional Football Against Hunger
The European Professional Football Leagues joined the UN Food and Agriculture Organization this week to launch a campaign to raise funds and awareness for...
Man Becomes Hero to Nation of Farmers
Almost everyone knows Shykh Seraj in Bangladesh, where farming offers a lifeline to most of its 140 million people, half of whom live on...
90,000 Homes To Be Powered By Chicken Manure
The world’s largest biomass power plant running exclusively on chicken manure has opened in the Netherlands, converting one-third of all chicken manure residue there...
Farm Aid to Help Farmers Hurt by Ike, Gustav
Farm Aid today announced that initial grants would be made to southern farm and faith-based organizations to support family farmers hardest hit by Hurricanes...
New Way of Growing Rice Could Help Solve World Food Crisis
Cornell University professor Norman T. Uphoff is advocating a new way of growing rice in hopes of helping to solve the global food crisis....
UN Increases Food Aid by $1.2 Billion
The UN World Food Program said today it will provide $1.2 billion in additional food aid in the 62 countries hit hardest by the...
$500M Donation by Saudi Arabia Helps UN Meet Food Crisis Goal
Saudi Arabia has made a landmark offer to contribute $500 million to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to help with efforts to...
Volvo Unveils Sixth Annual Hometown Hero Award Winners
Volvo yesterday announced the top three winning heroes in the 6th Annual Volvo for life Awards: After a tragic farm accident involving her son,...