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  • Lodi woman to head state growers group - 11/24/2009 24 Nov 2009 09:54 GMT
    ... Kim Ledbetter-Bronson, vice president of Vino Farms Inc. in ... Lodi, has been named chairwoman of the California Association of Winegrape Growers. She is first ... president to take a post with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ledbetter-Bronson will serve as the group's interim ...

  • Lodi woman to head state growers group 24 Nov 2009 08:53 GMT
    ... Kim Ledbetter-Bronson, vice president of Vino Farms Inc. in ... Lodi, has been named chairwoman of the California Association of Winegrape Growers. She is first ... president to take a post with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Ledbetter-Bronson will serve as the group's interim ...

  • Seattle lawyer turns into healthy food crusader 24 Nov 2009 07:50 GMT
    ... hodgepodge; oversight authority is scattered between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which covers meat and poultry, and the Food ... were traced to just four fields in California, spinach sales plummeted. "They were looking for ...

  • Animal ID opponents still seek end to program 24 Nov 2009 06:51 GMT
    ... existing contractual obligations and NAIS-related costs that USDA incurred prior to Sept. 30, 2009; -- Pay all costs associated ... Animal Producers Assn.; Bluebonnet Equine Human Society; California Farmers Union; Carolina Farm Stewardship Assn.; Cattlemen’s ...

  • Looking for added health benefits at the dinner table? Take a global approach 24 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... the Center for Advanced Medicine in Encinitas, Calif. "Eating plenty of low-mercury fatty fish, fresh ... As many Americans struggle to reach the USDA-recommended five to seven vegetable servings per day, ...

  • Scientists are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers. 24 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... NOV. 16, 2009 -- Chickens stand in their cage ... those who oppose the cages. Voters in California approved a proposition last year that bans ... of a three-year study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But even as Skewes and others conduct ...

  • Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable? 24 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... NOV. 16, 2009 -- Chickens stand in their cage ... those who oppose the cages. Voters in California approved a proposition last year that bans ... of a three-year study funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But even as Skewes and others conduct ...

  • Ninth Circuit: Activists Cannot Sue Over Turkey Slaughter 24 Nov 2009 04:35 GMT
    ... Hall Patel of the Northern District of California had granted summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the merits, but the appellate panel ... for animal welfare, filed suit against the USDA in 2005 claiming that “inhumane methods” of poultry slaughter ...

  • 'Vernon who?' tackles question before possible run for governor 24 Nov 2009 04:33 GMT
    ... a kid in a drug-infested neighborhood in California to becoming the first in his family ... while he was still an employee at USDA. Federal employees can't bid for contracts. He said he was ...

  • U. spy also stung Oregon primate lab 24 Nov 2009 03:06 GMT
    ... used to support a complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, alleging the lab was not properly caring ... primates in their research. Last year in California, extremists allegedly assaulted researchers in their homes ... complaints with the National Institutes of Health, USDA and the Humane Society of Utah, alleging broad-based ...

  • Food and Beverage Industry Trends to Watch in 2010 23 Nov 2009 22:33 GMT
    ... and snacks that are stricter than current USDA requirements, 27 states have nutritional standards for competitive foods sold ... question is what to do about it. California legislators, who have already taken action to ...

  • Grist Exclusive: Will Whole Foods' new mobile slaughterhouses squeeze small farmers? 23 Nov 2009 19:03 GMT
    ... Grist that it is working with the USDA as well as state authorities to establish a fleet of top-of-the-line “mobile ... such as the state-certified mobile unit in California recently and they often end up operating ...

  • Import shortage of tomatoes in United States 23 Nov 2009 17:25 GMT
    ... risen markedly. The American ministry of agriculture USDA, has reported that the prices for tomatoes during November were 30% higher ... from the west coast, but supply from California is also decreasing quickly. The Dutch trading ...

  • National Teacher Survey Indicates High Number of U.S. Children Too Hungry to Learn 23 Nov 2009 16:30 GMT
    ... National Teacher Survey Indicates High Number of U.S. ... their classrooms. Recently released figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that nearly 17 million U.S. children ... locations from its distribution centers in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New ...

  • Food-safety lawyer's wish: Put me out of business 23 Nov 2009 15:52 GMT
    ... hodgepodge; oversight authority is scattered between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which covers meat and poultry, and the Food ... were traced to just four fields in California, spinach sales plummeted. "They were looking for ...


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