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Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors
By not in system - AOL NewsDEN BOSCH, Netherlands -- Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise, a Siberian bunker, or a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert. Advocates say this, or something like it, may be an answer to the world's food problems. "In order to keep a planet that's worth living on, we have to change our methods," says Gertjan Meeuws, of ...
US Expects Bigger Corn Crop to Ease Food Inflation
By not in system - AOL NewsST. LOUIS -- U.S. farmers are expected to boost the size of this year's corn crop, potentially easing global food inflation. The Agriculture Department reports that farmers intend to plant 92.2 million acres of corn this spring, a 5 percent increase over last year. That would make it the second-biggest corn crop since 1944, after a record-setting planting in 2007. Grain prices are at their highest levels since the food crisis of 2008. New production will help ease concerns over a supply pinch. Worries over a shortage have doubled the price of corn since last summer, from $3.50 to more than ...
Stink Bugs are Booming: Bad for Farmers, Good for Exterminators
By not in system - AOL NewsIn 1998, Karen Bernhard, a part-time entomologist with the Penn State Cooperative Extension in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, began getting calls from residents who were creeped-out by a unusual tank-like bug that had decided that the warm confines of a residential home was an ideal place to escape the cold Northeastern winter. ...
Farmers Deposit Seeds in Arctic Doomsday Vault, Patrolled by Polar Bears
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsFarmers from Australia are the latest donors to a polar bear-patrolled Arctic doomsday vault that stores seeds as insurance against an international food emergency. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a converted mine, is located about 800 miles from the North Pole in Arctic Norway. An Australian delegation of farmers and scientists next week will deposit 301 samples of peas and 42 rare chickpeas in the vault, intending to protect the plant species from extinction by climatic or man-made events. John McConnico, AP Australian farmers and scientists next week will deposit 301 samples ...
'Cabbagegate': Man Fined $5K for Home Garden
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- His neighbors call it "Cabbagegate." And it cost Steve Miller a lot of green. The Clarkston, Ga., man was fined $5,200 for growing too many vegetables in his backyard. Miller had been growing legumes for 15 years, selling them at local farmers markets and giving them away to friends, before he was cited by the Dekalb County Code Enforcement office for the first time last September. It's illegal to garden at such a level in the zone where he lives. Miller tried to challenge the penalty, but a reprieve was slow in coming, and the fight's not over. "Time went on, but no answers, ...
'Mad Men's' Lessons on Food Policy
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe heat-and-serve meals seen on "Mad Men" don't often inspire me to much food policy thought, but I did appreciate "Mad Men's" very own Soylent Green moment this week when, upon learning what brand of dog food his puppy was eating, a focus group attendee cried out, "Ponies! They make it out of ponies!" After which the dog food company executive calmly observed to the surrounding Sterling Cooper staff that horse meat seemed to have acquired a bit of a branding problem. Likewise, the meat we eat also suffers from a branding problem, namely that we don't think about it enough in terms of ...
A Bum Steer: Big Beef Throws Its Weight Around at Cal Poly
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyBig Beef has a bone to pick with Michael Pollan. And who can blame it? After all, Pollan, a professor of journalism at University of California at Berkeley and a critic of industrial agriculture, almost got away with delivering a lecture last week to students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. How dare he?! Pollan had been invited by the university's Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium, a faculty-run group that works to make sure students are exposed to alternatives to conventional agricultural practices. Apparently Big Beef decided to get mad -- and get ...
What Happened to the Green Revolution? 19 Women Die in Pakistan Food Riot
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyOn Tuesday, 19 women in Pakistan were killed in a stampede to get free flour. Just three days before, in Dallas, Norman Borlaug -- the agricultural scientist credited with spearheading efforts to create new varieties of crops to feed expanding populations -- had also died. The strange thing about the deaths in Pakistan is that Borlaug's efforts succeeded. When he produced his research on new wheat varieties in the 1960s, it looked very likely that Pakistan and India were both on the brink of unprecedented famines, with populations ballooning faster than farmers could keep up. The new crop ...
Russians Share Michelle Obama's Love of Veggie Gardens
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyFirst lady Michelle Obama is in Russia this week, but Russians don't want to talk about what she thinks of living in the White House. They show no interest in her views on philandering politicians. And -- thank God -- no one has even broached the subject of sleeveless dresses in her wardrobe. What they do want to talk about, The Washington Post's Robin Givhan reports, is her gardening, specifically, for food. Household food gardens are a mainstay for Russian families, but Americans have relied on them less. The Christian Science Monitor recently noted that in urban areas of Russia alone, 56 ...
Bush Vetoes Farm Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn what is likely to prove an academic exercise, President Bush followed through on a threat and vetoed the recently passed 2008 Farm Bill. The $307 billion bill, officially titled the "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008," extends many of the incentive and subsidy programs established in the 2002 Farm Bill in an era of rising food prices and farming incomes. The president cited both in his veto message to Congress.At a time of high food prices and record farm income, this bill lacks program reform and fiscal discipline. It continues subsidies for the wealthy and increases farm bill ...
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