Raw farm commodity prices are down drastically, as are energy costs, but why have supermarket food prices not declined in step? ( Gary Crawford and Ephriam Leibtag)
Ephriam Leibtag, USDA economist, saying there is not much pressure right now to push food prices up, but food stores have little pressure to lower prices, either.
In an effort to keep cashed strapped pet owners and their animal companions together, a different kind of food pantry is surfacing. (Susan Carter, Rosanne Higgins with the Buffalo Companion Animal Network)
A rescue group comes to the aid of pet owners struggling to feed themselves and their animal companions. (Susan Carter, Rosanne Higgins with the Buffalo Companion Animal Network)
The National Small Grains Germplasm Collection was the basis for USDA researchers to breed new varieties of barley resistant to the pest Russian Wheat Aphid. (Rod Bain and Phil Bregitzer of the Agricultural Research Service)
With fifty per cent of Georgia's fruit left to eventually rot, researchers there are looking at ways to convert the produce as a potential ethanol feedstock. (Rod Bain and University of Georgia Bioengineer Elliot Altman)
University of Georgia Molecular Bioengineer Elliot Altman explains the available sugars found in fruit and how that translate into potentially converted ethanol fuel.
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