Organics in the News
Why Small Farms Are Safer
A battle raged around the new bill because it threatened to allow the FDA to regulate small farmers as though they were major agribusiness corporations. This bill, detractors feared, would treat...
Nutritional quality and safety of organic food. A review
Food security, nutritional quality and safety vary widely around the world. Reaching these three goals is one of the major challenges for the near future. Up to now, industrialized production methods...
Organic Farmers Seek Healthier Future
The hills of northeastern Maharashtra are normally green and lush during the annual monsoon season. But this year's spots of brown are a sign of a trouble. In this region known as the suicide...
Popular herbicide more deadly to liver cells than its active chemical alone
Very low doses of some types of the herbicide Roundup can disrupt human liver cell function; the formulations' toxicity may be tied to their "inactive" ingredients rather than the active weed-killing...
Is Becoming A Farmer The New American Dream?
It seems to me that, living at nature's pace on our little farm, I come closer to making my living from farming in a literal sense than "real" farmers. Carol and I raise most of our food including...
As farmers age, plans match aspirants with pros
He quit his job and drove his wife and their four young daughters across country, a 21st-century pioneer lured to these faraway farm fields by the promise of a life-changing deal with an older...
Do Seed Companies Control GM Crop Research?
Advances in agricultural technology including, but not limited to, the genetic modification of food crops have made fields more productive than ever. Farmers grow more crops and feed more people...
