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EPA’s Pinocchio nose grows with farmer privacy scandal

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:09:00 +0000

EPA’s Pinocchio nose continues to grow longer. Despite a barrage of criticism following the admitted release of private farmer data to three environmental groups after a Freedom of Information Act request, EPA has clammed up and carried on.

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5 lessons from the Honeygate scandal

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:08:00 +0000

Honeygate, in other forms, is still bubbling under the surface. In reality, with billions of dollars up for grabs on the counterfeit food market, Honeygate is going nowhere.

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Days of wine auctions and gay marriage

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Sell wine to buy more wine: An odd two nights of vintage wine, foreign billionaires, and gay marriage protestors demanding Pinot noir.

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Agriculture's burden of technological intolerance

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000

The coming population burst casts a shadow over agriculture — a colossal feeding task looms with no precedent in history.

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Nuggets of wisdom from the March Against Monsanto

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:27:00 +0000

The March Against Monsanto produced a kangaroo court of GMO judgement and a series of bizarre claims.

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Farmer’s death puts national focus on killer bees

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000

With the recent deaths of a farmer in Texas and a mountain climber in Arizona, the spread and range of killer bees is gaining national attention.

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Border tour reinforces farmworker importance

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0000

A tour early this spring to the U.S.-Mexico border for the Arizona agricultural leadership group Project CENTRL at the San Luis, Ariz., Port of Entry was truly an eye-opening experience.

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Eat your insects — the UN knows best

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:00:00 +0000

You can be sure that as soon as the UN report on insect consumption was released, the bureaucrats who commissioned and championed the study were feasting away on steak and potatoes: “Do as I say, not as I do.”

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Thank you Center for Food Safety for costing farmers millions

Thu, 30 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Please send a thank you note to Andrew Kimbrell, executive director, The Center for Food Safety, 660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE #302, Washington, D.C. 20003.

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Shocker: Food Gestapo loses regulation battle

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000

The food Gestapo always knows best what should go on your plate. Government regulators love to hide behind the banner of "consumer protection."

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Honey bees a landmine solution?

Tue, 28 May 2013 16:11:00 +0000

The idea that honey bees will seek out TNT seems ridiculous; but researcher Nikola Kezic believes he is close to training bees to find landmines. With tens of millions of mines buried around the world, no one is laughing.

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China's food safety a giant scam

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000

China's new era of food safety is taking a severe beating from dead hog flotillas, rat steaks, and toxic chicken feet.

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Cliff Young — the farmer who outran the field

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000

When unknown 61-year-old farmer Cliff Young shuffled off his farmland and destroyed 10 professional runners in a 544-mile race — a legend was born. The ordinary gave birth to the extraordinary as Young beat the field by 10 hours.

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New hired hand at Western Farm Press

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:46:00 +0000

There is great news from the Western Farm Press news desk. Todd Fitchette, a native Californian with a heaping helping of experience in California journalism over several decades, has joined the WFP staff as associate editor.

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Supreme Court stuffs seed patents back in Pandora’s box

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:46:00 +0000

The High Court squeezed seed patents back into Pandora’s box, but more cases will come.

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