| Safety of GM crops called into question | European commissioners overturn a verdict by the European Food Safety Authority that three new types of GM crops posed no environmental or health risk. | May 15 2008 - 3:34pm |
| Bat deaths remain a mystery | Bats are dying in epidemic proportions of a new disease now being called “white-nosed syndrome.” | May 15 2008 - 3:32pm |
| Whopper and a side of spies | Eric Scholosser calls for more security” firms to perform undercover surveillance against social-action groups | May 15 2008 - 3:23pm |
| University of Minnesota begins organic/sustainable program | The University of Minnesota and the Land Stewardship Project have secured funds from the 2007 Minnesota Legislature to support agricultural research and outreach focusing on sustainable and organic methods. | May 8 2008 - 2:56pm |
| Ontario says "no" to cosmetic pesticides | Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced a ban on the use and the sale of 80 chemicals and 300 lawn and garden pesticide products. | May 8 2008 - 2:51pm |
| Reform the Farm Bill, eat local and invest in biofuels | President Bush took a swipe at what he calls the "massive, bloated Farm Bill" and suggests that we begin to eliminate subsidies to the "multimillionaire farmers" in a press conference last week. | May 8 2008 - 2:46pm |
| Testing for antibiotics in the environment | Scientists from the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland, and the Czech Republic have teamed up to create a field kit for testing for the presence of antibiotics. | May 2 2008 - 3:00pm |
| Early flowering hairy vetch gives boost to northern farmers | Working with the Rodale Institute, Agricultural Research Service breeders at the Sustainable Agriculture Systems Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, have released winter hardy ‘Purple Bounty’ allowing farmers to plant their cash crops two weeks earlier. | May 2 2008 - 2:58pm |
| Volatile grain market could end up costing consumers | Soaring grain prices may be high now but they are also more volatile, leaving farmers in a quandary about planning for next year’s harvest. | May 2 2008 - 2:30pm |
| When neighbors become farmers | Kipp Nash of Boulder, Colorado, is a backyard gardener and a front-yard gardener. And not just his own yard, but many of his neighbors’, as well. That he’s turned his neighborhood into a mini farm, of sorts, has some of his neighbors up in arms, and others who have lent their space to his efforts rolling in produce | Apr 25 2008 - 1:59pm |
