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"Back Where Virus Started, New Scrutiny of Pig Farming" [1]

"Many experts think pig farming presents a serious and overlooked risk to public health. Proof of that assertion -- indirect but indisputable, in the opinion of virologists -- is the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza."

Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
International [4]
Source: Wash Post [5], 10/26/2009

"Prairie Pioneer Seeks To Reinvent The Way We Farm" [6]

"In the prairies of Kansas lives Wes Jackson, a man who has spent his long and rich career trying to invent a new kind of agriculture -- one that will last indefinitely."

Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NPR [8], 10/22/2009

"Agriculture Critic's Appearance Angers University Alumni" [9]

A big-money rancher alumnus caused Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to change a scheduled lecture by best-selling sustainable food writer Michael Pollan -- raising questions about academic freedom.
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: LA Times [10], 10/15/2009

"Where They Grow Our Junk Food" [11]

To get to the root of the obesity epidemic, one Canadian reporter went in search of a junk food farm. There were no fields of Dorito bags waving in the breeze. "What you do see are vast operations growing the raw materials for junk food: soybeans and corn."
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
Canada [12]
Source: Toronto Star [13], 10/12/2009

Keeping The Breadbasket From Drying Up [14]

Right now, America's Bread Basket relies on an aquifer that's nearly drained. And, many say, it will dry up if farmers keep pumping water from it at the current rate. The Environment Report's Devin Browne reports the government plans to pay farmers as one way to get them to cut water use.
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [15]
Source: Environment Report [16], 09/18/2009

"Tomato Blight Spreading" [17]

"If you've been waiting all season for that quintessential taste of summer -- a juicy, ripe tomato from the garden -- you might be disappointed. This year a tomato blight has swept across the Northeast and is moving into Midwestern gardens and farms."
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Environment Report [18], 08/27/2009

"Farm to Hub to Table: New Nonprofit Feeds Appetite For Local Food" [19]

The Local Food Hub in the Charlottesville, Va., area is an example of a new trend: nonprofit distribution enterprises that aggregate food produced by small-scale local farmers and move it quickly to local customers such as restaurants, schools, and retirement homes.
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Wash Post [20], 08/27/2009

Judge Orders USDA To Release Data on Wolf Program [21]

The locations of conflicts in New Mexico and Arizona between livestock and Mexican gray wolves, which were reintroduced in 1998, will now be made public in hopes of identifying problem areas and taking preventive steps.
SEJ Publication Types: 
WatchDog TipSheet [22]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [23]
Region: 
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Visibility: 
Public [3]

"The Dark Side of Dairies" [25]

"Milk may have a wholesome commercial image, but the dairies that produce most of the nation's supply aren't always healthy places to work. Dairy workers are injured at a much higher rate than other workers in the U.S." Most of the West's 50,000 dairy workers are immigrants with families to feed, many undocumented. Government rules to protect them are as weak as skim milk.
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: High Country News [26], 08/25/2009

"A Battle Over The Treatment Of Livestock" [27]

"Recently, six states have changed their laws to require better conditions for farm animals. But there’s a battle brewing in one state that’s putting a new spin on the debate."
Agriculture [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Environment Report [28], 08/11/2009

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