Published May 8, 2013 at 3:16 pm (Updated May 8, 2013) WANTAGE The Medicine Wheel volunteer group are hosting their fifth annual Medicine Wheel Celebration on May 18 and 19 with the Heritage and Agriculture Association, a friends group of Lusscroft Farm in Wantage. The two day event features local music, gardening workshops, tours, perennial plant sale, craft and food vendors, community discussions and more to support the continued growth and preservation of the gardens and historical buildings. Continue reading
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EarthTalk / Efforts to regulate genetic engineering of crops sacked
Dear EarthTalk: What is the Monsanto Protection Act and why are environmentalists so upset about it? Rita Redstone Milwaukee, Wisc. Continue reading
Workshop focuses on genetic engineering
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A workshop on complying with regulations governing genetic engineering of organisms will be held Tuesday in Baton Rouge. The session is sponsored by the LSU AgCenter and the U.S. Continue reading
The Emerald Cup 2012 presents – Organic Gardening and Medicine – Video
The Emerald Cup 2012 presents – Organic Gardening and Medicine Emerald Cup 2012 presents Agriculture Grower's Pavilion – Organic Gardening and Medicine Video courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePickinpa. Continue reading
Minor Skirmishes In The Great Debate Over Genetic Engineering In Agriculture
April 18, 2013 Brett Smith for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online Officials and scientists across the United States are debating the role of genetic engineering in agriculture. While some see genetically modified foods as a sign of technological progress and a way to maximize profits, others see it as a potential hazard with unknown effects for the public health Continue reading
Futurist Says U.S. Entering Golden Age of Agriculture
FARGO What do cell phones, baby kangaroos and DNA mapping have to do with agriculture? A lot, potentially, according to futurist Lowell Catlett, a featured speaker Tuesday at the 2013 Northern Soybean Expo held at the Fargo Holiday Inn. With the cost of buying a home the lowest its ever been in the United States and the price of food relative to income going down, Catlett said the jump in disposable income is creating oodles of new markets for farm producers to exploit. Continue reading
Futurist says US entering 'golden age' of agriculture
Futurist Lowell Catlett Lowell Catlett, regent’s professor and dean and chief administrative officer at New Mexico State University’s College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, speaks at this morning’s session of the Northern Soybean Expo in Fargo. Dave Olson / The Forum FARGO What do cellphones, baby kangaroos and DNA mapping have to do with agriculture? Continue reading
Food Freedom Day 2013: BMO Recognizes Important Milestone for Canadian Consumers
Today, BMO Bank of Montreal recognizes an important milestone – Food Freedom Day 2013. According to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, today marks the calendar date by which the average Canadian will … Continue reading
Innovative uses of nanotechnology in food and agriculture
Public release date: 28-Jan-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, January 28, 2013The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) invests nearly $10 million a year to support about 250 nanoscale science and engineering projects that could lead to revolutionary advances in agriculture and food systems. Continue reading
Biotechnology Activities at Genetic Engineering Research Center, FOA, CU – Video
Biotechnology Activities at Genetic Engineering Research Center, FOA, CU Biotechnology Activities at Genetic Engineering Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University By: eBicEgypt Continue reading
Xtreme Mega Makeover, Part 3 – Video
Xtreme Mega Makeover, Part 3 The ongoing saga of transforming a home that was in horrible condition into a thing of beauty. Located in Beltsville, MD in the Maryland Suburbs of Washingon, DC. Near the University of Maryland, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, US Dept. Continue reading
LC #1109, 10/29/12 – Video
LC #1109, 10/29/12 Libertarian Counterpoint #1109: political news commentary, 10/29/12. Panel: Ted Hadzi-Antich, Richard Fields, Cheryl Bly-Chester Topics: 1. Continue reading
Fundamentals Of Weed Science – Robert L. Zimdahl – Video
Fundamentals Of Weed Science – Robert L. Zimdahl ll4.me Fundamentals Of Weed Science – Robert L. Zimdahl This book addresses herbicides and their use as an important aspect of modern weed management,and strives to place them in an ecological framework. Continue reading
$8.4 million for food grain and alternative fuel research
November 9, 2012 Blumwald and his colleagues will use the grants to develop new molecular biology tools to accelerate switchgrass breeding and biotechnology tools to develop new varieties of pearl millet, a small-seeded grass. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis photo) With new grants totaling $8.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S Continue reading
Vote Tim Golden, A Senator Who Works Hard For Us! – Video
Vote Tim Golden, A Senator Who Works Hard For Us! Prior to his election to the Senate, Tim Golden served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives before his election to the State Senate in 1998. Golden served as an aide to former US Senator Sam Nunn and was a long-time aide to former US Congressman Charles Hatcher. He also served as Staff Director for the US House Small Business Subcommittee on Energy and Agriculture in Washington, DC While a member of the House of Representatives, Golden served on the Ways and Means Committee, the Banks and Banking Committee, and the University System of Georgia Committee. Continue reading
Encouraging bathing water quality results this year.
by Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture The Department of Environment, Food and Agricultures Environmental Protection Unit, in conjunction with the Governments Analyst Laboratory has completed this years sampling and testing of sea water at the bathing beaches around the Island. Continue reading
Department of Agriculture Assesses HMS Lab Protocols
A facility responsible for the Harvard Medical Schools laboratory animals has been cited by the United States Department of Agriculture for failing to review exemptions that allowed it to house primates alone. The new report reveals the findings of a July 31 inspection, which cited the Harvard School for Comparative Medicine for housing the rhesus macaques alone. Continue reading
Southborough primate lab to make changes
Harvard Medical School says it will start making changes at the primate research center that has come under national scrutiny following the death and injury of several monkeys in the past year and a half. The school said it is following the recommendations of an independent panel of scientists who conducted a five-month review of the schools primate research center and this week released a two-page summary of their report. Continue reading
School food — on the front line in the fight against childhood obesity
Public release date: 15-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, August 15, 2012Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, has published a special issue dedicated to the role that schools can and should play in providing and encouraging healthy nutrition and good eating habits to help stem the tide of the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents. The special issue provides comprehensive coverage of food policy, systems, and programs to improve food culture, practices, and nutrition standards in the school environment, and is available free on the Childhood Obesity website at http://www.liebertpub.com/chi. Efforts to improve school nutrition have been limited mainly “by a relative absence of evidence,” says David L. Continue reading
US Navy defends renewable fuels strategy in Industrial Biotechnology Journal
Public release date: 9-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, August 9, 2012Despite criticism from Congressional Republicans and other groups, the U.S. Navy recently completed its Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2012 international maritime exercises, featuring the “Great Green Fleet” powered by a 50% biofuels blend. The Navy contends that renewable energy resources such as biofuels have a critical role to play in enhancing national security and energy independence Continue reading