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Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management

MOFGA's Country Store is now selling the second edition of the Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management. This popular book is a helpful aid for farmers, home gardeners, extension professionals and farm advisors looking for accurate information based on published research. MOFGA's own Crop Specialist, Eric Sideman, is a co-writer for this resource guide! Get your copy today for only $20!

Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
All that glitters is not gold: biotechnology has failed us, so why promote it abroad?
Common Dreams - 6/19/2009.
By Paula Crossfield – The head of the World Food Program announced on Friday that an additional 105 million more people have become hungry in 2009, adding to the one billion plus who were already food insecure. The day before, Secretary Clinton gave a speech about hunger in the world, speaking in broad strokes: "[H]unger belies our planet's bounty. It challenges our common humanity and resolve. We do have the resources to give every person in the world the tools they need to feed themselves and their children."
A chemical found in most consumer products may cause heart disease in women
Alternet - 6/18/2009.
By Elizabeth Grossman – A study released this week by researchers at the University of Cincinnati says that exposure to bisphenol A may increase heart disease in women. Bisphenol A (BPA) is the chemical building block of polycarbonate plastics and is used in countless consumer products including food and beverage containers, kitchen appliances, electronics, and packaging and is used to make resins that line food and drink cans.
Baldacci signs bills to curb obesity: Legislation focuses on restaurants, schools
Bangor Daily News - 6/18/2009.
By Kevin Miller – Gov. John Baldacci ceremonially signed three bills on Wednesday to help Mainers count calories while dining out and to improve the state’s monitoring of childhood obesity. Public health advocates said the measures – including a menu-labeling requirement for chain restaurants – are small but important steps that could reverse Maine’s childhood obesity rate, which is ranked the highest in New England.
Sale and use of 200 pesticides to be banned in New BrunswickSale and use of 200 pesticides to be banned in New Brunswick
CBC News - 6/18/2009.
The New Brunswick government is banning the use and sale of 200 over-the-counter lawn-care pesticides starting later this year. Environment Minister Roland Haché announced the ban in the legislative assembly on Thursday. The government is clamping down on pesticides through a regulatory change. Haché said there will be some exemptions to the ban for the agriculture and forestry sectors, as well as golf courses.
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