LOS ANGELES -- Farmers Insurance Group of Companies[R] has sent $37,500 plus food and clothing to help the American Red Cross relief efforts following the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Ike. "There are still thousands of Texans without power, and so many in need of help," noted Farmers CEO Paul...
KAGIO, Kenya AFP — Twenty years ago, Benson staked all his assets to venture into lucrative export crops and started growing the French green beans so prized by European consumers. But with rampant inflation pushing up his costs and a slumping market for French beans, the ageing Kenyan farmer...
The 8 million people who rely on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children will be able to eat more healthfully in the new year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Dec. 6 that the program will now include fruits, vegetables and whole grains-the first major changes...
APPLES Are there chemical residues on apples? Yes. First, be aware that while it is in the interests of supermarkets to control the level of pesticide and post-harvest fungicide drenches applied to apples from the "dedicated" British farms that supply them, they are less...
ROWS OF ALMOND AND FRUIT TREES stretch as far as the eye can see in Manteca, interrupted only by vast yards of dairy cows and grasslands. This is farm country, one town in the great Central Valley, which supplies more than half the nation's fruits and vegetables and virtually all...
A new cooking oil solves an age old problem. Foods cooked in saturated oils such as animal fats cause heart disease. Hydrogenated vegetable oils meanwhile contain trans fats, which elevate LDL bad cholesterol levels in the blood and lower HDL good cholesterol. Today Ag Pro, in cooperation with Innovative...
By Dan Wallach, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 9--Rice, the world's No. 1 food staple, shows up in all kinds of places, even in an American diet obsessed with avoidance of carbohydrates, a rice industry executive said Wednesday....
Originally published March 2004 Contents: Chemicals Pesticides.Biocides Life Sciences Food Environment General Issues Energy Consumers/Safety/Intellectual Property Institutional Issues Chemicals ...
AFTER FIVE years in the financial doldrums, trapped by plunging prices and food scares, farmers were given a boost yesterday with a prediction that their incomes will rise fourfold this year. A combination of severe drought elsewhere in Europe and rising global food prices means that the...
Organic agriculture is expanding rapidly in the United States as consumer interest continues to gather momentum and new organic production and marketing systems evolve. In the wake of USDA's implementation of national organic standards in October 2002. Continued growth in the industry is expected. USDA's organic rules incorporate an...
By Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 15--HOLDEN, Mass.--Christopher Shustak drives 85 miles to Simsbury, Conn., every two weeks to buy fresh, thick, unpasteurized milk at a farm, where the farmer helps him load crates of seven ...
By Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 17--FARMINGTON, Maine--When a group of dairy farmers dumped 10,000 gallons of milk into a manure pit a week ago to protest the plummeting price of their milk, some other farmers deemed...
By Elizabeth Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 21--After more than a decade of deliberation, national standards that control how organic food is produced take effect today. Consumers already are seeing the effect in a flood of new...
I. INTRODUCTION American production agriculture is one of the most productive and efficient agricultural industries in the world. So why is it slowly disappearing? In pursuing that question, the author gradually identified a large portfolio of threats to American production agriculture, including economic, political, social, and environmental issues. Each...
Anew year, a fresh start. Everyone hoping for peace and good will to all. Well, that may be rather a lot for the food industry to accomplish, but thinking about culinary trends for 2002, let's start on an optimistic note: weapons technology will find a more peaceful and tasty use....
By Greg Edwards, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 4--Thanks to agricultural research, anthrax was no big mystery when cases of the often-fatal disease began showing up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "We did have a lot of...
Thanks to the federal government, Canadian homeowners are soon going to have a more difficult time keeping their yards bug-free. That is because the pesticides diazinon and chlorpyrifos, among the first to be reviewed by Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency PMRA, will not be available...
Canada's new licensing review exterminates its first victims, and more will come Thanks to the federal government, Canadian homeowners are soon going to have a more difficult time keeping their yards bug-free. That is because the pesticides diazinon and chlorpyrifos, among the first to...
The Federal nutrition assistance safety net represents the first line of defense in boosting the food purchasing power and improving the nutritional status of lowincome households in the United States. In fiscal 2000, USDA spent an estimated $32.5 billion on food assistance programs, over half of its annual budget. Community-based...
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 November 2000-FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: MPs debate new law on GM liability C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15112000 A new law that makes biotech companies liable for any harm or damage caused by GM crops or food will be...
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