Monday October 01st 2007, 6:49 pm
As supermarkets enter the fray, the battle for the organic dollar is hotting up in Australia. But are organics really any better?
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Organics a blooming business (Stuff)
USDA begins process to open border to older Canadian cattle (Prairie Star)
Monday October 01st 2007, 1:23 pm
Citing the need to harmonize the cattle trade with countries presenting a minimal risk of introducing bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) into the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on Sept. 14, published rules that will eventually allow older Canadian cattle to move south across the border.
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The new land army (The Age)
Monday October 01st 2007, 1:20 pm
As supermarkets enter the fray, the battle for the organic dollar is hotting up. But do organics really have an edge?
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Blending artistic vision, business skills to help nonprofits (Orlando Sentinel)
Monday October 01st 2007, 6:50 am
The arts and business? They may have more in common than you think.
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Mills bid paper goodbye (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Monday October 01st 2007, 6:06 am
When your company is being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration over contaminated Chinese food products, it's good to have proof you did nothing wrong.
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Grass-fed animals are healthier (Rapid City Journal)
Monday October 01st 2007, 4:25 am
“To love and appreciate the Rocky Mountains, you only open your eyes, but to love and appreciate the prairie, you must open your soul.”
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Premise registration continues on plan (Iowa Farmer)
Monday October 01st 2007, 1:59 am
Editor’s note: On Nov.. 22, the Bush administration pledged not to make a planned National Animal Identification System mandatory. However, that has not derailed movement toward a voluntary tracking system.
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Johanns Could Be Leaving USDA Just in Time (AG Weekly)
Monday October 01st 2007, 12:19 am
WASHINGTON — The Department of Agriculture is rarely in the headlines these days, but when Secretary Mike Johanns stepped down last week, he listed a range of projects that span the agency’s broad reach, from preparing for an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza to developing an online facility for providing U.S. citizens with nutrition advice.
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