Minimize antibiotics
Bangor Daily News - 9/26/2009.Editorial by BDN Staff – Although major food buyers, including national chain restaurants, have stopped buying meat from farms where antibiotics are routinely used or asked such farms to reduce their use, the routine administration of these drugs remains too widespread. Rather than leaving it up to individual companies, Congress should adopt a national policy to limit antibiotic use. |
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USDA gives grants to seven in Maine
Portland Press Herald - 9/24/2009.The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded grants to seven projects in Maine that will strengthen local economies and help new and existing businesses and farmers, said the office of Rep. Mike Michaud. … The Presque Isle-based Aroostook Band of Micmacs ($31,739) and the Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association of Unity ($68,450) received money to establish, expand and promote farmers markets and other direct producer-to-consumer marketing opportunities, according to a news release. |
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Common Ground Fair Begins Sept 25
Village Soup - 9/23/2009.Sept. 25-27 the Common Ground Country Fair will take place at the home of the Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association in Unity.
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Court rejects genetically modified sugar beets
San Francisco Chronicle - 9/23/2009.By Bob Egelko – The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White rejected the U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision in 2005 to allow Monsanto Co. to sell the sugar beets, known as "Roundup-Ready" because they are engineered to coexist with Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. |
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