Farmers Skirt Rules on Gene-Altered Crops, Report Says
New York Times
... that its farmer customers adhere to this rule, five big biotech companies — Monsanto , Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta , Dow AgroSciences and Bayer CropScience — jointly survey growers and report results annually to the E.P.A. Mr. Jaffe obtai...
Local growers tout holiday gifts
Honolulu Advertiser
Buying locally grown can sometimes seem a struggle between listening to your conscience or keeping an eye on your wallet. So, several key organizations in Hawaii's agricultural community are highlighting local holiday gift ideas that can st...
Police seize 200 pounds of marijuana at Grants Pass site, arrest three
Ashland Daily Tidings
Two registered growers there were producing medical marijuana for 13 patients. The legal amount of usable marijuana that can be possessed for 13 patients is 19 1/2 pounds. The roughly 180 pounds of marijuana in excess of that legal amount l...
Afghanistan's investment choices
BBC Business
Steps have been taken to encourage poppy growers, which account for most of the world's heroin supply, to switch to legitimate crops. "If people invested in fruit and vegetable processing, especially organic foods, there will be great added...
Pistachio harvest yields good quality nuts this year
Desert Dispatch
Even though many pistachio growers in Newberry Springs harvested their crop last month, the recent warm weather prompted Dean Van Bastelaar, whose family owns Big Al’s, to leave his nuts on the tree a little while longer. The Van Bastelaars...
Pecan growers see a skimpier harvest this year
WOAI
FLORESVILLE, Texas -- Pecans are a tasty Texas tradition, but producers News 4 WOAI talked with say the brutal summer heat this year took its toll. Frank Rhew owns Rhew Orchards. It contains some 2,000 pecan trees. Rhew says his irrigation ...
PASSCO to acquire 100-120 rice mills on lease
Daily Times
PASSCO intervenes as a second player in the market to safeguard the interests of the growers who are exploited by the middle-men if there is no intervention by the corporation. It also helps in consolidating the market by guaranteeing a han...
No vote on Huber Delta-protection bill
Amador Ledger-Dispatcher
... Westlands Water District was created federally with provisions that newly irrigated desert-like land in western Fresno County would become home to small farmers, but the big growers who'd pushed for the district never relinquished hold ...
Gallo and Farm Labor Contractors First in Agriculture Industry to ...
Forbes
Cal/OSHA is proud to recognize its partnerships with growers and farm labor contractors to ensure the safety and health of California's field workers," said Department of Industrial Relations Director John C. Duncan. "This new partnership i...
It’s bad,’ Agent Characterizes Crop Situation in Ashley County
Ashley County Ledger
State Damage Near constant rain has caused between 25 percent and 80 percent damage in some cotton, rice and soybean fields in Arkansas as growers struggle to harvest what's left during brief periods of dry weather, according to extension a...
Rain slowing corn harvests in Ohio
Akron Beacon Journal
Dwayne Siekman of the Ohio Corn Growers Association said overall, it's been a good season. More farmers are using technology -- from improved seeds to better equipment -- to become more efficient. ''The time it takes to put a crop in the gr...
Agreement aids Wyo. sugar beet growers
Star-Tribune
An agreement between two companies will help northern Wyoming sugar beet growers desperately trying to salvage their weather damaged crops. Wyoming Sugar of Worland is buying beets from Western Sugar Cooperative growers in the Lovell factor...
MU Extension Receives Grant to Help Amish, Mennonite Growers to Reduce ...
Kansas City infoZine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 7 office has awarded the University of Missouri Extension a Strategic Agricultural Initiative grant totaling $51,158 to reduce the use of high-risk pesticides. Kansas City, KS - infoZine - T...
