Sunbelt AgNet.com By Blair Fannin August 26, 2011 www.sunbeltagnet.com Original Source From Texas A&M University By: Blair Fannin AUSTIN – At the recent annual meeting of American feed and fertilizer control officials, an expert stressed that fertilizer is vital to production of food to feed the world in the future. Julie Borlaug, assistant director of [...]
US loosing Colombian market share to Mercosur claim farmers
MercoPress – South Atlantic News Agency July 13, 2011 en.mercopress.com United States industry and agriculture lobbies are again advocating forcefully before Congress on the pending free trade agreement with Colombia claiming the delay is costing market share to a more aggressive Mercosur. “While media reporting on trade issues has justifiably focused on the pending free [...]
Ads taken out against Korea free trade agreement
Detroit Free Press July 5, 2011 BY TODD SPANGLER Original Source WASHINGTON – A group opposed to the Korea free trade agreement is taking out radio and television ads asking people to call House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp and urge him to vote against the legislation. The American Jobs Alliance – an independent [...]
Ads taken out against Korea free trade agreement
Detroit Free Press July 5, 2011 BY TODD SPANGLER Original Source WASHINGTON – A group opposed to the Korea free trade agreement is taking out radio and television ads asking people to call House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp and urge him to vote against the legislation. The American Jobs Alliance – an independent [...]
Innovative Greening of America
Can biotechnology save the American chestnut tree? The early evidence is encouraging–but success will require scientific ingenuity as well as the public’s full acceptance of genetic modification. For Italian families like mine, chestnuts are an important part of our heritage. We simply have to eat them on Thanksgiving and Christmas. We used to roast chestnuts [...]
American Crystal Board Approves Roundup Ready Planting
American Crystal via Checkbiotech April 1, 2011 http://greenbio.checkbiotech.org MOORHEAD, MINN. – American Crystal Sugar Company Board of Directors today authorized the planting of Roundup Ready sugarbeet varieties for the 2011 growing season. The decision was made after a large amount of analysis and consideration of possible legal and financial impacts on individual shareholders and also [...]
Buy Chinese
Los Angeles Times By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. January 20, 2011 www.latimes.com As Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with President Obama this week, America's new enthusiasm for trade restrictions against Chinese renewable technologies may mar the conversation. Last week, Obama signed a defense appropriation law including a "buy American" provision that prohibits the Pentagon from [...]
Do Antibiotics in Wastewater Pollute Food Crops?
American Chemical Society Rachel A. Zurer October 29, 2010 http://pubs.acs.org Antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals linger in treated wastewater that farmers use to irrigate food crops. Scientists wonder whether plants absorb these contaminants and, if so, whether the drugs affect human health. Now researchers find that a range of food crops do not take up [...]
American Crystal Weighs in on RR Court Decision
Red River Farm Network www.rrfn.com The court decision in California’s northern district calls for further review of Roundup Ready sugarbeets. American Crystal Sugar Company President and CEO David Berg says the ruling is not simple and not straight-forward. "The best news, the one we should immediately feel best about, this really great crop, the 2010 [...]
HSUS Clucks About Future Politicking
The Center for Consumer Freedom August 12, 2010 consumerfreedom.com In today’s New York Times, Humane Society of the United States CEO Wayne Pacelle adds two new states to his animal rights group’s hit list: Washington and Oregon. Add that to existing speculation about Nebraska and Minnesota also being in HSUS’s sights, and 2012 could be [...]
Bezan, U.S. Trade Rep Discuss COOL
Portage Online (Canada) Kelvin Heppner July 28, 2010 Portageonline.com The United States Trade Representative says he remains hopeful that Canada and the U.S. can reach a compromise over country-of-origin labeling (COOL) legislation. Selkirk-Interlake MP James Bezan met with Ambassador Ron Kirk last week. "Kirk says there shouldn’t be any reason why we can’t sit down [...]