USDA released its Environmental Impact Statement on Roundup Ready alfalfa, which evaluates the environmental effects of degregulating the genetically modified seed. Although this is not a decision document — that is more than a month away — it does indicate that USDA is leaning toward either full deregulation of GE alfalfa, or deregulation accompanied by […]
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Good Food Jobs is a new service connecting job seekers and employers in sustainable food and farming. Its tagline is “satisfying the hunger for meaningful work” and its mission statement explains: “Good Food Jobs is a gastro-job search tool, designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy,
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As reported in the October issue of Growing for Market, seed garlic is in short supply this year. Part of the shortage is blamed on bad weather in the Northwest, but the garlic bloat nematode has also contributed to the problem. Many growers in the Northeast and Canada have lost their crops to the pest.
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What is the greenish-yellow powder you get all over your hands and arms when you pick tomatoes? For the past two summers, this question has been bothering me. But I couldn’t find anyone who seemed to know. I asked numerous friends in the biology and horticulture fields, and even several tomato breeders. Most people said
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AgSquared is a new farm planning software program that is being developed by Jeff Froikin Gordon and Giulia Stellari. Growers who learned details about it at the NOFA Summer Conference in August praised the program on list servs and Facebook. “It’s going to be hugely useful for the market farmer,” one grower wrote.The program is
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A Senate committee released a new version of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) that is likely to come before the full Senate for approval this fall. It is significantly better for small produce farms than the companion House bill (HR2749) passed last year and the differences will have to be worked out in conference
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