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Farm Labor Crisis Has Hidden Dimensions
When countries are ill-governed or divided into strident factions, their citizens often vote with their feet and leave. While the United States was forged in a melting pot made up of these dissatisfied ethnicities, and... more »
Utah Farm Wants to Renew Interest in Strawberries
Maple Mountain Greenhouse and Strawberry Farms has a pretty good motto: "Our berries are so sweet, you'll think we dipped them in sugar." Owner Mark Van Wagoner credits the sweetness of his berries to central... more »
Pumpkin-Eating Dinosaur Draws Crowds
To attract fall customers, farm markets have come up with many creative uses for their pumpkins – such as stacking them, carving them or launching them in a catapult – but there's probably only one... more »
Congress Weighs Crackdown on Junk Food in Schools
A major battle may be in the offing, as food and beverage manufacturers work to keep their products off a new junk food list USDA will be preparing if proposed legislation becomes law. Foods defined... more »
New Jersey Undertakes Farmland Preservation
This article is the first in a series looking at farmland preservation efforts in a number of states. When modern transportation made it possible for the West Coast to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to... more »
Booming Population Threatens Unique National Treasure
This is the second in a series of articles on farmland preservation. When Edward Thompson Jr. took over as California state director for American Farmland Trust in the fall of 2003, he passed up a... more »
Farmers’ Markets Connect Urban, Rural Residents
The societal distance between America's rural areas and its urban centers has never been as great as some might suggest. In large part, our cities developed around commerce that, in the nation's earlier days, involved... more »
Pennsylvania Leads Nation in Rescuing Farmland
It wasn't Jane Gordon Fletcher's fault she got rich. Over the years since her birth in 1901, the value of the family farm near Malvern, Penn., just kept rising as people pressure from Philadelphia, 24... more »
FDA Releases Final Rule on Nutrition Labeling
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, perhaps we should eat a bigger apple. That seems to be a conclusion American consumers have reached. One of the most noticeable changes in the Food... more »
Oklahoma Farm Shows Kids How Things Grow
Search the Internet with the phrase "starting a farm" and you'll be given 37 million pieces of advice. Weeding out the good advice from the bad and the practical from the impossible seems as though... more »
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