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Cornucopia Institute Calls for Independent Probe Into USDA's National Organic Program
Dec 14, 2016In a letter to the USDA's Office of Inspector General, The Cornucopia Institute has requested an independent audit of the National Organic Program, charging multiple illegal actions and inactions. The Wisconsin-based farm policy research ...
Tags: Cornucopia Institute, container
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Ardent Mills, Armour Partner to Produce and Sell Ultragrain Pasta
Oct 26, 2016Flour-milling and ingredient company Ardent Mills has entered into an agreement with Armour Specialty Marketing to produce and sell Ultragrain Pasta into the foodservice and food manufacturing channels. Ultragrain Pasta will be available ...
Tags: Flour-milling, Ultragrain Pasta
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UN Food Agency Leaders Hail U.S. Law Aimed at Boosting Global Food Security, Resilience, Nutrition
Aug 12, 2016FAO and WFP say law will greatly enhance worldwide efforts to combat hunger and rural poverty 25 July 2016, Rome - Leaders of two United Nations agencies fighting hunger worldwide have applauded new legislation in the United States ...
Tags: WFP, President Obama, rural poverty
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Blue Sky Family Expands Product Presence to Natural Grocers
Nov 24, 2015Blue Sky Family Farms, presented by Egg Innovations, the nation's largest producer of 100% free range and pasture raised eggs, is now available in Natural Grocers in the Midwest, Southwest and Northwest regions. Blue Sky Family Farms ...
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Pompeian Group Partners with Dcoop Group of Spain
Nov 5, 2015Pompeian Group, the Baltimore-based importer and distributor of olive oil and vinegar, is entering into a new equal partnership with the DCOOP Group of Spain, the largest olive oil cooperative in the world. Pompeian, through its group of ...
Tags: Pompeian Group, olive oil, vinegar
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ASTA Today Announces a Three-Year Communications Effort to Educate Consumers
Dec 15, 2014The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) today announced a three-year communications effort to educate consumers. The goal is to reach beyond the seed industry to educate the general public about the role of seed and seed improvement in ...
Tags: Seed Improvement, Agriculture
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Nature's Path Invests 2, 760 Acres to Increase Organic Farmland
May 27, 2014Nature's Path, North America's largest independent organic cereal company, lives by the mantra "always leave the earth better than you found it." This week, the Canadian company took another step along that path with the purchase of 2,760 ...
Tags: Nature's Path, Sustainable Future
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Two Colorado Farmers Contaminated Cantaloupe to Interstate Commerce
Jan 17, 2014Two Colorado farmers who pleaded guilty to six counts of introducing contaminated cantaloupe to interstate commerce in one of the deadliest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history have asked a federal judge for probation sentences. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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Analysis of Top Trends in The Economic and Food Production Environment
Jan 7, 2014As the National Pork Board sets its course for 2015 through 2020, the organization's strategic planning task force was recently presented an analysis of top trends in the economic and food production environment that are most likely to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Pork
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Siri Knew Little About Agriculture
Nov 25, 2013About two years ago, I wrote a column on Apple’s new digital goddess Siri, the company’s digital assistant and go-to person for iPhone users. Folks could ask Siri a range of questions including street directions, the location of ...
Tags: Apple, revamp, Siri, agriculture
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More and More Consumers and Corporations Are Touting The Benefits of "Local" Foods
Nov 11, 2013More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
Tags: local food, organic food, farming
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Refuse to Buy an Animal That Has Been Fed Antibiotics
May 1, 2013Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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A Federal Judge Admonished Them Soundly in a December Ruling in Favor of a Family Farm
Jan 23, 2013We didn’t hear a peep from the Waterkeeper Alliance and its president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., after a federal judge admonished them soundly in a December ruling in favor of a family farm. It’s not a victory for agriculture just ...
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New MAC Viper Profile for The First Time on The 2012 Version of Farm Aid
Dec 5, 2012USA - LD Jason Robinson used Martin Professional's new MAC Viper Profile for the first time on the 2012 version of Farm Aid, the yearly benefit event that raises money for family farmers in the US, and found they had "all the stop I needed ...
Tags: MAC Viper Profile, family farmers, video wall, camera
