Monsanto’s Roundup Creates Resistant ‘Super-Weeds’, Devastates Farmers
www.organicauthority.com - August 01, 2011
Claims by biotech giant Monsanto that its glyphosate-based pesticide, Roundup, can improve crop yields and lessen the strain of fighting weeds for farmers may now be a liability after a recent study published in the current issue ...
Read moreAmericans, Demand Organic!
www.huffingtonpost.com - July 27, 2011
So I was dawdling about on Twitter, and I see a tweet from Mark Bittman about the "shocking" (his words) survey just out from Thompson Reuters and NPR Health about organic. What's so shocking about it? Fifty-eight percent of ALL A...
Read moreDespite fears, more genetically modified crops are on the way
www.twincities.com - July 27, 2011
Today, the biotech field is changing again. The assortment of GM crops is about to multiply, far beyond the corn-soybean-cotton mainstays of the past 15 years. Soon coming to market are GM versions of bluegrass, sugar beets, cabba...
Read moreA Way to Save America's Bees: Buy Free-Range Beef
www.theatlantic.com - July 19, 2011
Here on our ranch, the yard and gardens are now humming with so many busy bees that if I let our two-year-old go barefoot outside, I'd probably get arrested for child endangerment. Meanwhile, a suburban woman recently complained t...
Read moreResistant weeds leave farmers desperate
www.stltoday.com - July 18, 2011
Weeds in cotton fields have gotten so tenacious — some with stems 4-inches around — that farmers are paying itinerant crews to chop them down by hand. "In the Bootheel they're hiring people to go out there with hoes," said Blake ...
Read moreMeadowlark and bobolink song herald Cherokee farmer's success
www.chronicletimes.com - July 14, 2011
Nathan Anderson, with the help of dad Randy Anderson and fiance Sarah Joachim, has been restoring a perennial pasture on which they graze a cow-calf herd of eight cows with calves and five heifers. Nathan has taken this pasture, w...
Read moreGenetically Modified Grass Could Make Superweed Problem Worse
www.wired.com - July 12, 2011
A genetically engineered grass expected to hit U.S. markets without government review could speed the evolution of hard-to-control weeds, and perhaps require a return to toxic herbicides scrapped decades ago. On July 1 — a Frid...
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