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Editorial: State must expand access to food stamps
February 08, 2012

Sacramento loses clean-tech jobs in 2010, for first time since 1999
February 08, 2012

The State Worker: California Prison Industry Authority: Agency business costs hurt bottom line
February 07, 2012

10-year forest restoration program set to start
February 06, 2012

Stuart Leavenworth: Alice Waters eyes Sacramento for next ‘edible schoolyard'
February 05, 2012

Elk Grove residents seek to apply the brakes on city expansion
February 03, 2012

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Ag secretary meets with farmers
February 09, 2012 | WFMZ Allentown, PA

Regulating Gas Pumps
February 09, 2012 | WIAT CBS 42

Agrium Tops Estimates And Sees 2012 Pickup In Demand
February 08, 2012 | Financial News Network

Agriculture Wikipedia Information

Agriculture (from Agri Latin for ager ("a field"), and culture, from the Latin cultura "cultivation" in the strict sense of "tillage of the soil". A literal reading of the English word yields "tillage of the soil of a field".) is the production of food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of domesticated plants and animals. In modern usage, the word agriculture covers all...

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San Diego deregulates urban agriculture
February 07, 2012
San Diego has joined the urban agriculture movement. What started as a nonprofit group’s entanglement with bureaucracy while trying to plow a community garden in...

Union of Concerned Scientists Gives Monsanto an ‘F’ in Sustainable Agriculture
February 07, 2012
WASHINGTON (February 7, 2012) – The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today published a new web feature documenting how agribusiness giant Monsanto Company is...

Leading Bird Conservation Group Calls on Interior and Agriculture to Curb Bird Deaths From Mining Claim Markers
January 25, 2012
A mining claim marker with the cap blown off. By Christy Klinger. WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 25, 2012 - Am...

Community Supported Agriculture grows rapidly in California’s Central Valley
January 09, 2012
January 9, 2012 - Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) — farms that regularly provide fresh produce directly to members — is growing rapidly in California's...

World Population Day: Agriculture Offers Huge Opportunities for a Planet of 7 Billion
July 11, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2011 - As the global population increases, so does the number of mouths to feed. As we observe World Population Day on July 11th, the...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: Strengthening American Agriculture
July 23, 2011
July 23, 2011 - At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we are looking for new ways to help America's producers succeed every single day. We want farmers and...

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UC Davis researchers partner in beef E. coli research project
February 02, 2012 | UC Davis News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding the $25 million, coast-to-coast project, to which UC Davis is providing expertise in livestock health, foodborne disease and...

Six faculty elected as AAAS Fellows
February 01, 2012 | UC Davis News
She studies nutrient cycling, soil quality, organic agriculture, grassland restoration and climate change adaptation, and works with famers and ranchers to improve the...

Vilsack: 2012 Farm Bill Will be Smaller, But Still Boost California
January 23, 2012 | RSS Feed: Capital Public Radio State Government News
President Obama's Secretary of Agriculture says there's a lot for California to like in the closely-watched U.S. Farm Bill up for debate this year. But it will likely be a...

Judge rules raw almonds must be treated
January 19, 2012 | FresnoBee.com: Local
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has again upheld U.S. Agriculture Department rules requiring treatment of raw almonds, in the latest blow to San Joaquin Valley organic farmers....

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Biz Buzz: Bravo Greater Des Moines Awards Gala has green tinge
February 07, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Art met agriculture at that most swanky of metro parties, the Bravo Greater Des Moines Awards Gala. The black-tie event's honorary co-chairmen entered the Hy-Vee Hall ballroom...

Visit by China's Xi to be major event for Iowa, Branstad says
February 07, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has also been invited. Plans for Feb. 16 have not been finalized, but Branstad indicated that several Iowa farms are being considered for...

Briefing Media Takes Farmers And Doctors Off UBM's Hands
February 06, 2012 | paidContent
Agriculture division (Preston): 57 staff, Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer, websites. The two divisions made 12.1 million in 2011 revenue, UBM said, without disclosing...

Department of Labor will revise child farm labor proposal
February 05, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
The U.S. Department of Labor plans to repropose new rules governing child labor on farms, which had been criticized by agriculture ... Because many Midwestern farm families work land both owned and rented, or work land for other extended family members, agriculture ... '' U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ...

Guest columnist: Farmers' concerns are not imaginary
February 05, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Cox may not be aware of the collaborative work being led right now by Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey and conducted by the Iowa Department of Land Stewardship, the...

Register staffers win state awards
February 05, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
In the Iowa Newspaper Association annual contests for the state's largest newspapers, the Register won first place for: Best editorial page, best coverage of education, best coverage of agriculture ...

Agriculture on twitter

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