Agriculture

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A New Direction on Research at the USDA? The Experts Weigh In

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Research, Sustainable Food, Tom Vilsack, Agriculture, Food Safety, Food Security, Csrees, Nifa, Green News

After Tom Vilsack's speech, I've reached out to some key thinkers on agriculture to find out what they would like the USDA's new research body, NIFA, to be focusing on. Here are their answers.

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Education Matters

Joel Epstein | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: McDermont Field House, Charity, Citrus, Education, Agriculture, Water, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Chelsea Piers, California, Living News

I first visited Lindsay, California about four years ago when, as my company's director of charitable giving, I was looking to make an educational investment in a local elementary school.

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Green Group Says U.S. Climate Bill Won't Hurt Farms

cnbc.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, American Agriculture, Global Warming, u.s. Climate Change, Agriculture, Farmers, U.S. Climate Bill, Green News

Global warming poses more of a threat to U.S. farm incomes than does the climate change bill passed by the U.S. House, which will have a "negligible" ...

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Agriculture Lobbyists Not Happy With Climate Change Legislation

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Lobbyblog, Climate Change Legislation, Agriculture, Business News

The Hill reports that the agriculture lobby is troubled by aspects of the Senate climate change bill. The American Farm Bureau and the National Corn ...

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E. Coli: Woman Paralyzed After Severe Food Poisoning; The Unsafe System, Meat

The New York Times | Michael Moss | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Brain Damage, Meat Processors, Food, Agriculture, Regulation, E. Coli, Grocers, Usda, Food Poisoning, Red Meet, Hamburger, E Coli, Severe Food Poisoning, Beef Processors, Health, Ground Beef, Beef, O157:H7, Cargill, Business, Restaurants, Frozen Hamburgers, Burger, Cattle, Ecoli, Food Safety, Costco, Bad Hamburger, Trimmings, Paralyzed, USDA Policy, Food Safety Regulation, Green News

Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that firstday, and she finished...

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Mr. Smith Plays the Farm Card

Rob Smart | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Farms, Industrial Food, Farmers, Food, Agriculture, Science, Fertilizers, Genetically Modified Food, Capitalism, Chemicals, Green News

Right from the start, Mr. Smith works hard to make "good food" advocates out to be a powerful force hellbent on destroying our abundant food system.

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Farmer Kills 83,000 Rats And Wins Color TV

Telegraph | Ben Leach | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

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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Global Harvest Initiative Seeks Not to Feed People, But to Bolster Big Agriculture's Profits

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Dupont, Hunger, Monsanto, Global Harvest Initiative, Dan Glickman, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Richard Lugar, Adm, Norman Borlaug, Green News

Hunger looks on the surface to be the most bipartisan policy issue on our collective plates. We can all agree to the fact that hunger today is a global tragedy. But from there the discussion diverges.

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First Day Of Fall 2009: See Harvest Photos!

Huffington Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Fall Equinox, India, Lake Constance, France, Bulgaria, Slidehuge, Slidepoll, Agriculture, Autumn, First Day of Fall, Grapes, Wheat, Fall Starts, Germany, Middle America, September 22 2009, Pumpkins, Sugar-Beets, Tobacco, Fall September 22 2009, September 22 First Day of Fall, Radishes, What's the First Day of Fall, Farming, Afghanistan, Crops, Corn, Apples, Fall 2009, Harvesting, Maine, Rice, Local Food, Green News, Autumn Equinox, Food, Vietnam, Belarus, Slideshow, Green News

With the first day of fall upon us, we put together a tribute to the autumn harvest. From grapes and tobacco found in Bulgaria to coconuts from India...

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One Man's Plan To Plant A Million Trees In India

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, India, Sustainability, Green Jobs, Green Entrepreneurs, Agriculture, Green News

An Indian civil servant, SM Raju, has come up with a novel way of providing employment to millions of poor in the eastern state of Bihar. His campa...

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Saving A Billion People from Starvation

Dan Glickman | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Starvation, Agricultural Chemical, India, Norman Borlaug, Biotechnology, Hunger, Poverty, Pakistan, World Bank, Agriculture, Mexico, Malthus, The Green Revolution, Green News

Norm Borlaug's life is both a symbol of what can be done, and a reminder of the enormous problem of global poverty we still face. Why not finish his work?

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U.S Farmers On Verge Of Giant Corn Harvest

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Farming, Commodities, Corn, Bushels, Farmers, Agriculture, Corn Harvest, Record, Harvests, Business News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Darrel McAlexander has been farming for 43 years and he's never seen his corn crop look so good. "This is probably the best ...

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Reflections On The Industrial Agriculture Legacy Of Norman Borlaug

Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Norman Borlaug, Green Revolution, Industrial Agriculture, Food Politics, Agriculture, Green News

Guest post by Tom Philpott From Grist.org In the early 1940s, Mexico was a fraught region for U.S. geopolitical strategists. Not so long before--1939...

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Sustainable Agriculture Investment Poised to Surge

Janine Yorio | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Farming, Sustainable Farming, Agriculture, Green News

The sustainable agriculture sector is about to pop.

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Feds to Release Plan to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Stormwater, Nrdc, Water, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Runoff, Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, Green News

The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.

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Examining Monsanto's Greenwashing

guardian.co.uk | Fred Pearce | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Gmos, Monsanto Gmos, Green Washing, Water, Agriculture, Monsanto Greenwashing, Water Shortages, Monsanto Water, Monsanto, Green News

In part, no doubt, to help salvage its GM-tarnished reputation, Monsanto now makes great play of its efforts to help engineer a second green revolutio...

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US Agriculture Interests Split Over Energy Bill

AP | MARGERY A. GIBBS | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Climate Change Bill, Climate Change Legislation, Farmers, Agriculture, Green News

OMAHA, Neb. — Climate change legislation before Congress could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. Or it could be an enormous financ...

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U.S. Farmers See Their Income Plunge 38% As Recession Grips Agriculture

Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: u.s. Farm Incomes, Agriculture Department, Dairy Farmers, Hog Prices, Agriculture, Farmers, Business News

After some of the most profitable years in a generation, American farmers have seen their incomes dwindle as the recession begins to weigh on food pri...

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Meet Happy Chickens

Sarah Newman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Farming, Orren Fox, Marion Nestle, Chickens, Food Inc., Nba, Takepart, Agriculture, Joel Salatin, Twitter, Heifer, Green News

I had the pleasure of interviewing 12-year old Orren Fox of Newburyport, MA who happens to keep 25 backyard chickens.

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Nick Kristof: Our Food Has No Soul

nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Recalls, Farming, Factory Farming, Agriculture, Food Politics, Food Safety, Nicholas Kristof, Family Farming, Green News

On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It's not just t...

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Time Magazine Digs Into America's Food Crisis -- And How To Fix It

TIME | Bryan Walsh Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Farming, Food, Commodity Crops, Food Crisis, Big Agriculture, Agriculture, Food Politics, Green News

We don't have the luxury of philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price o...

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How To Run An Organic Farm Business (VIDEO)

Chelsea Green | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, How to Run an Organic Farm, Farming, Farming Business, Farms, Organic Farms, Agriculture, Green News

There are plenty of books out there on organic farming. (It's true--just check out our bookstore!) But there aren't a lot of books on the actual nuts-...

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Is This the Most Important Meeting?

A. Siegel | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Climatechange, Steven Chu, High Albedo Roofing, Agriculture, Environment, White Roofs, Biochar, Terra-Preta, Global Warming, Energy, Green News

As with looking toward better sanitation options in Finland, some potentially critical sessions proceed with too little media attention. Right now, Boulder, Colorado, is hosting one such meeting: North American Biochar 2009.

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Wealthy Middle Eastern Countries Lease Lands Overseas To Secure Food

Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Farming, Natural Resources, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Qatar, Cairo, Middle East, Egypt, Water, Arab, Farmers, Food, Doha, Food Security, World News

For Egypt and the rest of the Middle East, the future of food security will be dependent upon nations providing a clean supply of water for agricultural use.

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Organic Versus Conventional Food: UK Report Flawed

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Scientific Research, Food Standards Agency UK, Organic Food, United Kingdom, Sustainable Food, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Sustainability, Conventional v. Organic, Food Politics, Food, Green News

The attention-grabbing report ignored the 15 relevant studies that have come out since their February 2008 cut off date that could have changed the outcome of the report.

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