Running an industrial poultry farm is nothing like chicken farming in Laos. The last property produced eggs for consumption, but this is a breeding operation that leads to the chicken meat sold in markets. Farm groups say hundreds of such families who migrated from places like Minnesota to the Ozarks for a dream of owning land are now facing financial hardship. Lor and his wife, Choua Moua, scrape together their savings and drain their 401(k) accounts to come up with the 20% down payment....

If north Alabama farmers regroup and replant, they can still be a part of what is a national corn rush, with growers around the country saying they'll put in 90. Last year, Alabama farmers produced about 12 million bushels but imported about 200 million to meet the feed demands of the catfish and poultry industries. Sanderson went to the futures market and locked down much of his corn at as much as $4. For the record, the cotton would have suffered the same fate. The other 400 acres,...

Article published Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Let Earth Day inspire a menu Earth Day on April 22 is all about treading lightly on the planet, from conserving energy and resources to buying foods that are produced and harvested in an ecologically responsible way. Article published Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Let Earth Day inspire a menu Earth Day on April 22 is all about treading lightly on the planet, from conserving energy and resources to buying foods that are produced and harvested in an...

When Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore s Dilemma, and John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, sell-out a 2000 seat auditorium at UC Berkeley for a debate on the merits of simply organic versus strictly locally produced food as they did in February, you know that the concern with the origins of our food borders on an obsession with many in the Bay Area. When Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore s Dilemma, and John Mackey, the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, sell-out a...

Green Power EMC President Michael Whiteside, appearing on Sunday's Northeast Georgia This Week on WDUN NEWS TALK 550 (like AccessNorthGa.com a division of Jacobs Media corp.), said plant will produce the largest amount of electricity of the three renewable energy projects the consortium currently has on line. A conversion plant in Carnesville is expected to begin producing electricity this fall using chicken litter from north Georgia poultry farms. Green Power EMC President Michael...