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To become a law, a farm bill needs friends in unlikely places
The farm bill that staggered across the finish line only got there thanks to its hybrid, mash-up nature: It's a big old compromise.
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Hawaii lawmakers move to block local bans on GMOs, pesticides
Hawaii lawmakers have stepped in to protect Monsanto, Syngenta, and other ag giants from local laws that restrict their operations.
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We can harvest methane from cow guts. Should we?
Argentinian scientists hope to harness the methane cows fart and burp by passing a pipe into their stomachs and sucking out the gas for energy.
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Rice paddies providing respite for birds in drought-ravaged California
California's rice growers are being paid to leave water in their paddies for a couple extra months, providing migratory birds with stopover points.
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RNAi: Chatroom acronym? Nope — it’s the next generation of GMOs
It will save the world! It will destroy the world! That's how the debate over the latest bug-killer GMO is likely to unfold. A New York Times piece offers a more down-to-earth assessment.
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Midwestern farmers harvesting solar power
It's not just milk, cereal, and soy that's being produced on Midwestern farms.
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Send up the white smoke — we have a farm bill!
After two years of wrangling, congressional negotiators think they have a farm bill that can pass -- with food aid cuts that aren't as deep as previous versions.
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Meet Monsanto’s newest vegetables
They sound like science fiction, but they're based in farming techniques as old as ... well, pretty much as old as civilization.
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Nervous about MRSA? Us too — but here’s what we can do
There are scary new links between our overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and disease-resistant pathogens in humans. Deep breath: We can still take steps to fix it.
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Cattle ranchers lose bid to shoot bison with biobullets
Ranchers want wild bison in Yellowstone inoculated against a cattle disease, but their proposal for shooting vaccine into the beasts with air guns was rejected.
