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[...] the activists have had to dig deeper into their bag of tricks and revive a proven strategy for obstructing progress: litigation that challenges the procedural steps government agencies take when approving individual gene-spliced crops. Since 2007, a coalition of green activist groups and organic farmers has used the courts to overturn two final approvals for gene-spliced crop varieties and the issuance of permits to test several others.
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FARMER John Cromwell cultivates food for water birds - all while growing strawberries, May peas, sugar snap peas and other spring crops for us humans. As Cromwell watches berries ripen in his farm fields on New Bridge Road, he also watches scores of long-legged waders that come to dine in 25 acres of reclaimed wetlands on his farm.
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The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announces that it is inviting proposals for the 2013 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program. The intended effect of this notice is to solicit applications from the private sector and from government agencies for FY 2013 and to set out criteria for the award of funds in October 2012. The TASC program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). The statutory authority for TASC expires at the end of fiscal year 2012. This notice is being published at this time to allow awards to be made early in fiscal year 2013, provided that the program is reauthorized prior to that time. In the event this program is not reauthorized, or is substantially modified, FAS will publish a notice in the Federal Register rescindi...
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DAYTON -- Wet weather is affecting fruit and vegetable growers who either supply supermarkets or sell directly to consumers. It's the absolute worst spring season we have ever had" in 30 years, said Lisa Schacht, board president for the Ohio Produce Growers and Marketers Association, who operates a farm market in Canal Winchester on the south edge of Columbus.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) today broke ground on a state- of-the-art greenhouse that will play a key role in helping scientists combat a growing global disease threat to the world's wheat and barley supplies. The 2,880-square-foot greenhouse will be operated by scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091022/USAIDLOGO)
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... the industry include grains, general field crops, vegetables, and fruits. The cultivation of plants...
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Two farmers received a total of almost $40 million from a Portland, Ore. jury after their nursery crops, including blueberry, rhododendron and Japanese maple plants, were destroyed by a faulty fertilizer. The plaintiffs switched to a new fertilizer that was marketed as a controlled release product but was in fact a watered-down slow release with other nutrients mixed in, explained their attorney, Larry Baron of the Baron Law Firm in Portland.
