Feb
22
Wednesday, February 01 2012 by Jeff Tiberii Eric Hodge: a first-of-its-kind meat processing center has opened in Western North Carolina. The Foothills Pilot Plant is a non-profit operation designed to help small farmers and impact the local food movement. from Marion, Jeff Tiberii reports. Jeff Tiberii: Foothills Pilot Plant sits behind a prison off of …
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Feb
21
DOROTHY Yardley has seen her fair share of history. The Winchcombe resident, who celebrated her 100th birthday yesterday, has lived through the sinking of the Titanic, two world wars and a new millennium. SPECIAL DAY: Dorothy Yardley celebrates her 100th birthday with daughter Joan Jameson, granddaughter Stella Garner and great grandson Charlie The great …
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Feb
20
News 13 February 2012 US – the 2011 edition of AMI’s Meat and Poultry Facts, the industry’s leading statistical book, is now available. The 40th edition of this popular resource contains the latest statistics on production, consumption, prices, imports, exports, employment, wages and much more. the book was compiled by John Nalivka, president of Sterling …
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Feb
20
A local citizens group and a national public trust have raised $1.1 million in pledges toward purchasing the site of what was Walpole’s last working farm. The 74-acre Sunny Rock Farm, tucked in a corner of north Walpole and run by the Buttimer family for generations, was a thriving operation from the early 1920s until …
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Feb
19
On Monday, Redlands produce source is going solar. Jason and Abby Harned are adding long anticipated solar panels to their San Timoteo organic farm’s main structure with the idea of cutting their electricity consumption by at least 40 percent. Approximately 800 square feet of the structure is their house, and the remainder is used for …
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Feb
19
“Agriculture this year is, as all of you know, is changing more rapidly than probably any time of our lives,” said Scott Angle, dean and director of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia. “Input prices and costs will be an issue. … I feel very good about the future …
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Feb
18
Courtesy of go4awalk.com, Photo by Mike Fry A sort of European biogas arms race begins, as Britain continues to turn more attention to developing biogas power plants. Educating the public continues to be a huge factor, however, in approving new biogas technology in suburban and rural areas. the county of Norfolk recently resubmitted plans for …
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Feb
18
by GNP Company/Just BARE Posted: Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:05PM EST SAINT CLOUD, Minn. — In October 2011, just BARE Chicken passed the rigorous American Humane Certified® (AHC) standards for the raising and handling of farm animals, joining the list of American Humane Association(TM) (AHA) certified producers. Beginning this month, the American Humane Certified …
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Feb
18
Health workers in Nepal are to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the southeastern part of the Himalayan country, officials said yesterday. “we sent samples for investigation to London after chickens started to die of a mysterious disease in commercial poultry farms,” said Ram Krishna Khatiwada, …
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Feb
17
For the Capital Press Rising milk production is the “white cloud” hiding the silver lining on dairy’s horizon. Jerry Dryer warned in his Dairy and Food Market Analyst. “This is not the traditional spring flush arriving earlier than usual,” Dryer wrote. “There will be a traditional spring flush which starts in the South this month …
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