The ways our food is produced, packaged and shipped stand at the center of an ongoing debate about the health of our planet and ourselves, but the key to creating a sustainable system may rely on our collective ability to accept a realistic solution as a opposed to a perfect one. And this involves a...

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WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) Yesterday House and Senate leaders introduced bipartisan legislation designed to alleviate funding problems caused by emergency wildland fire costs. The Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act (FLAME Act) (H.R. 1404) was introduced in the U.S. House of Re...

All efforts to save the planet will be useless if we do not cut population growth. By 2050, the planet will have between 8 billion and 10 billion people, according to a recent U.N. forecast. And yet studies, books and documentaries that deal with various crises fail to discuss the danger of all thos...

Senator Tom Coburn thought that he was being awfully clever earlier this week when he spoke about wasteful pork barrel spending in the Omnibus Appropriations Act, and cited, as an example, spending for a program to deal with pollution coming from pig farms in Iowa. Pork barrel spending on pigs…...

a couple years back, in a wheat field outside the town of Reardan, Washington, Fred Fleming spent an afternoon showing me just how hard it's gotten to save the world. After decades as an unrepentant industrial farmer, the tall 59-year-old realized that his standard practices were promoting erosion s...

7 of the Twelfth Month 5769 They are not really that "cute and cuddly," as depicted in the photo. They are quite dangerous, and a general menace. Now, Elder Of Ziyon reports that Arabs are accusing Jews of being responsible for the damage caused by these wild pigs. They even claim that Jews are behi...

Rising cases of dengue fever, chikungunya, bird flu and ebola viruses were reported in several Southeast Asian countries in the past two months. Relax, there are no pandemic threats. Not yet, anyway. Last month, 4,521 dengue cases and 13 dengue-related deaths were reported in Malaysia. These are ala...

An important quirk of the budget process is known as “congress.” The President isn’t a Prime Minister who can outline a budget and then commit the country to sticking to it. He can outline a budget and then do his best to get congress to pass legislation that conforms to the budget...

Though we're not tractorlopnik, it's impossible to ignore the agricultural hotness of the New Holland NH2 hydrogen fuel cell tractor. It makes us want to plow so hard. The concept behind the NH2 is......