Crops

Chemical Marketplace: The Fine Print on a Common Pesticide, Writ Large

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Roundup, Crops, 2, Agriculture, Lawns, Herbicides, Chemicals, 4-D, Glyphosate, Fifra, Chemical Marketplace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid, And Rodenticide Act, Health, Dow Chemical, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Gardens, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.More than 80,000 chemicals are produced, used, and present in the United States. This is one of their stories. Do you we...

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Farmers Fear Crop Destruction Due To Erratic Weather

AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Premature Crops, Video, Mild Winter, Massachussetts Farmers, Crops, Farmers, Ap, Freezing Crops, Food News

TOPSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A stretch of abnormally mild weather set up a long, uneasy night for some Massachusetts farmers. In the week ...

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This Investment Is Like 'Gold With A Coupon'

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Corn Belt, Department of Agriculture, Soybean Crop, Farmland, Investing in Farmland, Crops, Reuters, Money News

By Kathleen Kingsbury BOSTON, March 19 (Reuters) - As a teenager in Wisconsin, Perry Vieth spent his summers baling ha...

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Elephants Behaving Badly, And Animal Detectives Now Know Why

| Daniel Strain | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Trample, Farming, Elephant, Crop Destruction, Video, Kenya, Rampage, Crops, Animal Behavior, Wildlife Conservation, Elephant Behavior, Science News

Elephants may give birth to live young, but they can still be bad eggs. A new study shows how seemingly good elephants turn rotten, at least from a hu...

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Joe Satran

Why Your Steak Is About To Cost More

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Grocery Prices, Drought Texas, Video, Meat Prices Higher, Crops, Corn, Texas Cattle, Beef Prices Higher, Currency, Beef Prices, Ethanol, Weather, Meat Prices, Cattle Prices, Food News

Steel yourselves, steak fans: your dinner is about to get a lot more expensive. The price of beef has hit an all-time high in each of the last four...

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'Green News Report' - December 8, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Fracking, Oil Subsidies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, West Virginia, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Pollution, Coal, Radiation, Methane, Drought, Video, Heat Wave, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Durban, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Massey Energy, Farming, Fukushima, Ipcc, Carbon Emissions, Nuclear Power, Crops, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Permafrost, Pennsylvania, Army, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Unfccc, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Upper Big Branch Mine, Wind Power, Global Climate Mitigation, Americans for Prosperity, Cancer, Grist, Tim Phillips, Toxic Chemicals, Jon Huntsman, Koch Industries, Ethanol, Adaptation, James Inhofe, National Journal, Tea Party, Koch Brothers, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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'Green News Report' - December 6, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Oil Subsidies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Radiation, Methane, Drought, Video, Military, Heat Wave, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Durban, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, World Meteorological Organization, Farming, Fukushima, Carbon Emissions, Ipcc, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Permafrost, Arctic, Army, BRAD BLOG, Water, Green News, Fox News, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Japan, Unfccc, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Muppets, Agriculture, World Bank, West Virginia, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Coal, Coal Mining, Massey Energy, Crops, Halliburton, Upper Big Branch Mine, Fracking, Pennsylvania, Mercury, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's not ...

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Feeding an Ever-growing Population

Cary Fowler | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Global Population, Plant-Genetics, Food, Crop-Diversity, Plant Breeding, Overpopulation, Crops, Food Security, Impact News
Cary Fowler

Mankind reached its first billion just as the 19th century got underway. That feat of fecundity required eons. It took us just 12 years, however, to tack on the last billion. We're definitely on a roll.

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WATCH: How One Farm Will Keep Going After Hurricane Irene

Liza de Guia | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Devastation, David Lloyd, Recovery, Food Videos, Dairy Farm, Hurricane Irene Floods, News, Denise Lloyd, Skeeternyc, Crops, Corn, Hurricane Irene, Food Curated, Maple Downs Farm, Flooding, Liza deGuia, Cattle, 2011, New York, Costs, Holsteins, Feed, Farms, Documentary, Upstate, Schoharie, Middleburgh, Food News
Liza de Guia

"I didn't have time to think about being scared." On August 28th, hundreds of farms in upstate New York were destroyed by massive floods caused by Hu...

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China Says Cooling Surging Prices Still Top Priority

AP | By JOE McDONALD | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Floods, Video, China Central Bank, Beijing, Inflation, Communist, Crops, Bank Lending Boom, Consumer Price Index, China, Investors, Business News

BEIJING -- China's central bank said Monday that cooling surging prices still is its top priority even after inflation eased slightly in August. Th...

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Farm Aid Shrinks As U.S. Debt Deal Means No Bailout

Bloomberg | Posted 10.20.2011

Read More: Farm Aid, Bailout, Economy, Crops, Agriculture, Debt Deal, Environment, Business News, Business News

Extreme weather that is reducing yields of corn, wheat, cotton and soybeans is also taking a toll on smaller crops, leaving pockets of losses in a far...

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Lynne Peeples

Battling Agricultural Pests With Natural Weapons

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Pesticides, Crops, Invasive Species, Sustainable Agriculture, Light-Brown-Apple-Moth, Pests, Wasps, Monsanto, San Francisco News

The 15 million wasp eggs scattered across neighborhoods in Sacramento and San Luis Obispo counties represent a rare return to historical methods of pe...

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Laura Gottesdiener

Mississippi Flooding Reaching Historic Levels

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Gottesdiener | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Severe Weather, Mississippi River Floods 2011, Louisiana Tornado, Natural Disasters, Mississippi Tornado, Mississippi River, Oil Spill, Mississippi Flooding, Economic Impact, Crops, Louisiana Floods, Flooding, Extreme Weather, Tennessee Tornado, Tennessee Floods, Green News

In one of the worst cases of flooding since the Great Depression, the bulging, swollen Mississippi River is overflowing in record proportions, blanket...

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Marcus Samuelsson: How American Farm Policy Affects People Worldwide

Marcus Samuelsson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Global Community, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Corn, Agriculture, Food Politics, Clean Water, Unicef, Food Prices, Global Poverty, Subsidies, Whole Grains, Crops, Food News
Marcus Samuelsson

Our current model is unsustainable, from growth of the kernels to the price on the stock ticker. And it doesn't just affect U.S. farming and policy, it affects farmers throughout the world.

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Low on Water, Short of Crop Land, Beijingers Turn to Golf

Daniel K. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: People's Daily, Pesticides, Law Enforcement, Golf Course, Golf Craze, Southern Weekend, Crops, Beijing, Water, Arable Land, Turf Management, China, Local Officials, Green News
Daniel K. Gardner

Considering the sizeable amount of land taken out of production, the water and the pesticides needed, and the harmful effects of intensive turf management, Beijing's golf craze makes little sense.

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Rebirth Among the Flood Ruins in Pakistan

Caroline Gluck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Floods, Oxfam, Floods, Hunger, Education, Children, Pakistan, Crops, Winter, Privacy, World News
Caroline Gluck

They've lost their homes and livelihoods. It's been a struggle to survive; and now they're not sure how they're going to be able to feed their families over the next few months.

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Plants Do It Too: The Importance of Plant Breeding

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crop-Diversity, Wheat, Plant Genetics, Crops, Breeding, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Plants, Climate Change, Global-Crop-Diversity-Trust, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Food Security, Cary Fowler, Food News
Cary Fowler

When people shop at the local market and bring home different varieties of apples and peaches and tomatoes, they don't spend too much time thinking about the sex that lay behind those fruits or the development of the different varieties.

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Rewiring Crops Could Make Them Grow To Enormous Size

Wired | Brandon Keim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rewire Crops, Carbon Fixation, Carbon Dioxide Plants, Crop Engineering, Crops, Calvin Benson Cycle, Green News

With a bit of biomathematical wizardry, researchers have found a new way for plants to breathe. The newly discovered chemical reactions would allow...

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Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Ipcc, Sustainable Food, Crops, Agriculture, Naure, International Year of Biodiversity, Plants, Crop, Crop-Diversity, Species, Biodiversity, Food, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Cary Fowler, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Food Security, World News
Cary Fowler

When we think about biodiversity, we rarely think about food. But the diversity within crops is notable agronomically and culturally. And like other biodiversity, it's endangered.

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Haiti's Tomorrow May Be Rooted In Trees, Fertilizer

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restoration, United Nations Environment Program, Soil, Knight Foundation, Agriculture, Aid, Plots, Knight Center for International Media, Jobs, Flooding, Plan, Trees, Dredging, Farms, Canals, Earth Institute, Countryside, Dominican Republic, Miami, Wood, Poverty, Crops, Tradition, Earthquake, Fire, University of Miami, Haiti, Fertilizer, Rivers, Columbia University, Environment, Food, Charcoal, Marc Levy, World News
Joseph B. Treaster

The task of restoring Haiti's countryside is extremely difficult and could even be impossible. But the restoration work for a healthy countryside would provide more food and jobs, and make flooding less severe.

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How To Green Your Holiday Meal

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Farming, Hanukkah, Soil, Turkey, Agriculture, Thanksgiving, Flowers, Green, Toxins, Soup Kitchen, Decor, Vegetables, Christmas, Dishwasher, Leftovers, Holidays, Holiday Season, Food Banks, Crops, Ecuador, Green Living, Reusable, Family Meals, Decorating, Imports, Menu, Organic Food, Fruit, Cornucopia, Colombia, Water, Environment, Tips, Homeless Shelters, Food, Decorating Tips, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Working up a menu for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or another upcoming holiday? Here are three tips to help you be more environmentally responsible while planning that feast.

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Will the Copenhagen Climate Talks Connect Two 150-Year-Old Dots?

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evolution, Crop-Diversity, cop15, Copenhagen, Crops, Charles Darwin, Agriculture, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Cary Fowler

Edwin Drake drilled the first commercial oil well in 1859. The Age of Oil was born. The same year, the science of global warming was born.

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Monsanto Squeezes Out Seed Business Competition, AP Investigation Finds

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monsanto, Seeds, Seed Business, Crops, Farming, Argriculture, Anti-Turst, Justice Department, Usdoj, US Department of Justice, Genes, Genetically Modified Food, Genetically Modified Crops, Patents, Patent, Patent Law, Food, Food Politics, Business News

ST. LOUIS — Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing compet...

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A Ripe Tomato: The Perfect Holiday Present!

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Holiday Gift, Crops, Contra War, Landmines, Micro-Credit, Irrigation, Nicaragua, Santarosa-Unida, Operation USA, Politics News
Richard Walden

When Geronimo Basilio borrowed $100 from Santa Rosa Unida, the local NGO with a micro-credit loan fund in his northern Nicaraguan village, he did so a...

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Farmer Kills 83,000 Rats And Wins Color TV

Telegraph | Ben Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, South East Asia, Crops, Agriculture, Farmers, Food, Pests, Rats, Ministry of Agriculture, Green News

Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a colour television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South ...

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