Rewarding sustainable farming: The Conservation Security Program
There are several government programs that either pay farmers to adopt sustainable farming techniques, mitigate environmental disasters or preserve wildlife habitat. That's great, though one thing...
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View ArticleVegetables of Mass Destruction: Information, Commodities and Grazing
Last week, the meeting of the University of Wisconsin's board meeting for the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) was all about sustainability. How to preserve the land, preserve farm...
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View ArticleWhy I'm Not Backing A Primary Candidate
Melissa McEwan has followed Marcotte in resigning from the Edwards campaign: A second blogger working for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Tuesday under pressure from conservative...
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View ArticleCAFOs and Avian Flu
Unless you eat all organic meat, a CAFO, or Concentrated/Confined Animal Feeding Operation, was probably the source of all the animal products you've used recently. Meat, milk, cheese, eggs, gelatin...
View ArticleUSDA Recalls GMO Contaminated Rice Seed
Genetically modified plants are perfectly harmless and totally under control: The Agriculture Department last night took the unusual step of insisting that U.S. farmers refrain from planting a popular...
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Chickens and Farm Bills and corn, oh my! Read on to join the ranks of the agricultural in-crowd ...
View ArticleVegetables of Mass Destruction: Fair Markets For Farm Country
OrangeClouds115 asked, so ...The typical American wage worker hasn't gotten a raise in somewhere around thirty years: [From the report], "A New Social Contract: Restoring Dignity and Balance to the...
View ArticleTiny, Little Countries Beat U.S. In Technology Innovation
Avedon Carol, in a news trawl that also pointed out the shadow war between the dirty hippie bloggers and the MSM, notes that the U.S. is slipping in terms of technological innovation and has fallen to...
View ArticleMy Life With Domestic Terrorism
Be afraid. Be very afraid.That's what terrorists want. That's what they feed on. That's how they exert control and influence, how they wield their power.Once they've given you a reason to fear them,...
View ArticleMy Life is Non-Negotiable To Me
In response to irishwitch's excellent diary about how OB-GYNs say that the Supreme Court was in the wrong, and in which she castigated anti-choice Democrats, someone predictably accused her of what's...
View ArticleLies The Economist Told Me
The Economist's latest issue, June 2nd-8th 2007, contains a 15-page special report on the business community's response to climate change. Other people may be more qualified than I to examine the...
View ArticleCan We Outsource Immigration Lawyers, Too?
Go to the Programmer's Guild for more:Found here at Information Clearinghouse, where they provide this description: Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in...
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United StatesNote to would-be Farm Bill reformers everywhere: There are no U.S. Congresscritters whose constituencies include West African cotton farmers. There are no U.S. Congresscritters whose...
View ArticleHouse 2007 Farm Bill Hearing, Day 1
Washington, D.C. - "A sound compromise that no one is satisfied with, but nevertheless represents real reform." - From Rep. Collin Peterson's (D-MN) opening statement today on the 2007 Farm Bill.The...
View ArticleHouse Agriculture Committee Blocks Courts To Small Livestock Growers
Washington, D.C. - The House Agriculture Committee voted a little after 4pm ET to repeal a provision added to the 2007 Farm Bill by Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA), chair of the Subcommittee on Livestock,...
View ArticleWill netroots assist in seppuku by Farm Bill? [Updated]
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again.... There is a tiny splinter...
View ArticleElitist Food
So, if you didn't know, I sold my car before moving to DC. The last time I drove was to the U-Haul place to drop off the truck. Parking is a nightmare here and it's expensive, too. I figured, hey, my...
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