Climate Food and Agriculture
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USDA offers help to beginning farmers. Will it be enough?
A new round of grants for beginning farmers worth $18 million promotes sustainable changes. But it's a just drop in the bucket compared to what we need.
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Buy a $150,000 bag of onions to save a family farm
Oh man, you're probably wishing you hadn't spent that $4,500 on a Rick Perry head planter yesterday. If you'd saved it, you could have put it towards ... well, a bag of onions, but also they'll throw in some dirt!
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Peebottle Farms: Chicken expertology
How are chickens like us? Are they easy to care for? Can you feed them onions? Here's what I learned in my first three months.
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After the flood [VIDEO]
Late summer is time most farmers have been working for all year, and when your crop gets wiped out, it can mean losing the bulk of your income.
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Lost in the maize [VIDEO]
More Mexicans struggle to afford tortillas, a daily staple, as food speculation fuels rising corn prices in their country.
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It takes a village to save a drowning farm
After Hurricane Irene, soaked farmers are trying to get by with a little help from their friends.
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Environmental leaders to Congress: Don't stop funding conservation on farms
A coalition of 56 influential policy organizations are working to ensure that clean air and water remain at the center of the Farm Bill discussion.
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Cantaloupe food poisoning outbreak is now the deadliest in 12 years
Don't tell Michele Bachmann, but it turns out that when food isn't adequately regulated, you can get giant deadly food poisoning outbreaks. Most recently, a crop of listeria-tainted cantaloupe has now killed 13 people officially, and possibly as many as 16 -- shooting right past the salmonella episode three years ago that killed nine. This is the most deaths from contaminated food since a 1998 listeria outbreak that killed 21.
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Food Studies: It all began with spam
Anna has found a way to combine a love of food with a history of science degree, thanks to the legendary canned meat.
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Feds help GMO salmon swim upstream
Although the FDA approval process has been stalled, a new grant from the USDA suggests salmon may yet become the first genetically engineered animal to be approved for human consumption.
