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The dairy cows, mounds of hay and their accompanying smells are long gone.
The ability to make a living off the rolling landscape above the Wisconsin River has remained.
With a massive power saw, a $10,000 Swedish milling machine and three simple solar kilns, Jim Birkemeier is turning firewood into hardwood flooring and a sustainable income.
In his recent article ("Free trade helps Americans more than it hurts," Jan. 17), Steven Landsburg criticized Republican presidential candidates for pandering to displaced workers in Michigan, counter to the free-trade dogma that he supports. We have benefited greatly from the cheap products that international free trade provides, he asserted.
Editor - Regarding "The battle with super bacteria" (Jan. 20): The image of one physician chastising hundreds of others regarding the rampant misuse of antibiotics in medical practice certainly gave me pause. There is no better indicator of the magnitude of public health threat we face with the escalating rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in our hospitals and communities.
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Economic slowdown and possible recession in the United States and other rich countries will not affect the rising trend in food prices, the head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Thursday.
At a busy microbiology lab in San Francisco, bad bugs are brewing inside vials of human blood, or sprouting inside petri dishes, all in preparation for a battery of tests.
These tests will tell doctors at UCSF Medical Center which kinds of bacteria are infecting their patients, and which antibiotics have the best chance to knock those infections down.
ST. PAUL (AP) -- The Minnesota Board of Animal Health said Tuesday that a beef cattle herd in Roseau County has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis.
The herd is the ninth in Minnesota where the disease has been confirmed. All cases have been in northwestern Minnesota.
To Gladys Jacques' relief, a grocery bag filled with chicken, bread and canned corn or string beans arrives on her doorstep once a month, delivered by church volunteers.
When wildfire roared through southern California last year, the fiery destruction captured nationwide attention. People still talk about the forest fire that destroyed nearly 800,000 acres in Yellowstone Park in 1988.
Destruction on a similar scale is under way on grasslands in prairie states. But it's happening quietly, without spectacular flames.
Lots of shoppers think they have a new reason to be mad at the Food and Drug Administration. The agency concluded last week that it's safe to eat meat and milk from cloned pigs, cattle, goats and their progeny _ and didn't require labeling of such products. But there's something many shoppers don't realize: This food already is on the market.
WASHINGTON (AP) Farm-state lawmakers say tough negotiations lie ahead for the five-year farm bill passed by Congress last year, mostly due to strong opposition from the White House to the $286 billion bill.
The office of Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski,
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WASHINGTON - Barely 5 feet tall, Sen. Barbara Boxer
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stepped onto a wooden box to reach the microphone at a global warming rally. But her voice was big.
WINNIPEG, MB -- Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, Alberto Cardenas Jimenez, and Gerry Ritz, Canada's Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food met Tuesday to discuss and review common strategic agri-food issues.
China's Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcai said on Tuesday some regions in the country were at high risk of serious animal epidemics in Spring due to frequent deliveries of livestock during the Spring Festival and activities of migratory birds.
Sun did not specify which regions were exposed to such risks.
Chances are, a parent or patient has asked you recently about the health risks from lead paint on a toy train, or from flame retardants in sofa cushions.
Some crop subsidies could be cut as lawmakers search for ways to pay for a new farm bill, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Thursday.
"As far as I'm concerned, direct payments are still on the table," he said, referring to the more than $5 billion in fixed annual payments that grain and cotton farmers receive.
Ohio 13th District Congresswoman Betty Sutton introduced a House Resolution today recognizing the importance of food and product safety and the impact of U.S. trade policy on the well-being of American families.