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Cornucopia Institute Calls for Independent Probe Into USDA's National Organic Program

Dec 14, 2016

In 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 ...

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Ardent Mills, Armour Partner to Produce and Sell Ultragrain Pasta

Oct 26, 2016

Flour-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

UN Food Agency Leaders Hail U.S. Law Aimed at Boosting Global Food Security, Resilience, Nutrition

Aug 12, 2016

FAO 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

Blue Sky Family Expands Product Presence to Natural Grocers

Nov 24, 2015

Blue 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 ...

Tags: Blue Sky Family, eggs, Free Range Non-GMO eggs

Pompeian Group Partners with Dcoop Group of Spain

Nov 5, 2015

Pompeian 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

ASTA Today Announces a Three-Year Communications Effort to Educate Consumers

Dec 15, 2014

The 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

Nature's Path Invests 2, 760 Acres to Increase Organic Farmland

May 27, 2014

Nature'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

Two Colorado Farmers Contaminated Cantaloupe to Interstate Commerce

Jan 17, 2014

Two 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

Analysis of Top Trends in The Economic and Food Production Environment

Jan 7, 2014

As 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

Siri Knew Little About Agriculture

Nov 25, 2013

About 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

More and More Consumers and Corporations Are Touting The Benefits of "Local" Foods

Nov 11, 2013

More 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

Refuse to Buy an Animal That Has Been Fed Antibiotics

May 1, 2013

Last 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 ...

Tags: Agriculture, Food

A Federal Judge Admonished Them Soundly in a December Ruling in Favor of a Family Farm

Jan 23, 2013

We 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 ...

Tags: Waterkeeper Alliance, family farm, agriculture

New MAC Viper Profile for The First Time on The 2012 Version of Farm Aid

Dec 5, 2012

USA - 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

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