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Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem
For all the outrage about Chinese melamine, what the United States has failed to scrutinize is how much of the chemical has pervaded our own food system.
November 17, 2008
Drought Resistance Is the Goal, but Methods Differ
Scientists are trying to create varieties of corn, wheat and other crops that can thrive with little water.
October 23, 2008
Shortage of Pollinators Is Not Affecting Crops, at Least for Now
On a global scale pollinator shortages are not affecting crop yields, a new study suggests, but there could be problems in the future.
October 21, 2008
Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest
The idea of a “vertical farm” has captured the imagination of several architects and city planners who envision skyscrapers as farms.
July 15, 2008A Center Studies How Plants Fare, and How Best to Tend Them
At a greenhouse at Cornell University’s Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center, staff members study diseases and insects that attack plants.
July 6, 2008
World’s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut
Agricultural research is reduced even as the growth of the global food supply slows and the population increases.
May 18, 2008California Holds Off on Crop-Spraying Plan
The pesticides fight the light brown apple moth, an unwelcome émigré that threatens California’s critical agriculture industry.
April 25, 2008
In Lean Times, Biotech Grains Are Less Taboo
Governments, consumers and food companies are feeling pressures to relax resistance to genetically engineered crops.
April 21, 2008Bug-Eating Bats Help Plants, Studies Say
Bug-eating bats in the tropics are a boon to farmers because they reduce the need for insecticides.
April 4, 2008
Food Politics, Half-Baked
Cloning deserves a fair hearing, one in which impassioned language yields the floor to responsible discourse.
February 5, 2008
To Raise Armyworms and Corn Borers, Study Insect Husbandry
Frank M. Davis and other experts have developed an entire technology to breed large numbers of insects for a variety of exotic jobs.
January 8, 2008
Both Sides Cite Science to Address Altered Corn
A proposal to ban the planting of a genetically modified corn strain sets up a bitter war within the European Union.
December 26, 2007
Our Decrepit Food Factories
What sustainability is really about.
December 16, 2007
The Harvest Goes Into Overtime
Growing produce into the winter to feed consumer hunger for fresh local produce is increasingly popular in the tristate region.
December 9, 2007A Fresh Bird Raised Just for a Feast
The thousands of Thanksgiving turkeys available at grocery stores have drifted ever further from the fresh fowl of our forefathers.
November 11, 2007Through the Forest, a Clearer View of the Needs of a People
A botanist by training, Phung Tuu Boi is fighting the effects of Agent Orange, an invisible poison that has affected Vietnam for decades.
September 18, 2007
Useful Mutants, Bred With Radiation
Public fears aside, scientists mimic nature’s genetic scrambling to bolster fruits and vegetables, as well as beer and whiskey.
August 28, 2007Gypsy Moth Infestation May Kill 17,000 Acres of Trees in New Jersey
NEWARK, July 19 Gypsy moths, which gnawed their way through a number of mid-Atlantic states this spring, stripped the leaves from trees over more than 320,000 acres in New Jersey, the worst infestation since 1990, state agricultural officials said on Thursday.
July 20, 2007
Richard H. Goodwin, Preserver of the Environment, Dies at 96
As national president of the Nature Conservancy, Mr. Goodwin helped preserve thousands of acres of open space on both coasts.
July 14, 2007
Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California Crops
A voracious Australian moth is threatening to infest one of the nation’s most important agricultural regions.
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Portrait of a Vermont Town
Hoping to avoid conflict that often stymies planning, officials in Starksboro, Vt., are asking Middlebury College students to help steer new development.
Getting Their Due
Thousands of Mexicans who worked in the U.S. under a guest worker program could each collect $3,500 in back pay from the Mexican government.
Cotton Farmers in Tajikistan
In the impoverished republic of seven million people, the government works in tandem with cotton trading companies to force farmers to grow cotton.
Russia: The Land
Far from the Kremlin and its rising military and economic ambitions lie remnants of a seemingly eternal, agrarian Russia. James Hill was there with his camera.
Looming Food Crisis in Afghanistan
The harshest winter in memory has left small farmers all over central and northern Afghanistan facing hunger this winter.
Russia, Amid a Food Price Boom
A decade after capitalism transformed Russian industry, a revolution of near similar scale is stirring the countryside, sweeping aside the collective farms that resisted earlier reform efforts.
Japan's Labor Shortage
In the farming town of Kawakami, local residents depend on temporary workers from China.
This Land: Fans in Reverse
John Richards, an engineer with the Nebraska Public Power District, discusses wind power.
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