The recent additions to our breeding and testing facilities demonstrate our continued commitment to improving profitability for dairy, swine and poultry producers. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina April 16, 2007 BASF Plant Science, the leading provider of nutritionally enhanced corn, is expanding its breeding and testing operations to include three new facilities. Our goal is to continue developing new hybrids that increase the feed value of corn for swine, poultry and dairy...

Yes, organic has been around a long time, but now it s more mainstream as consumers become more aware of their food sources and the ecological impact industrialized food production has had on our planet. As much as I ve heard about how healthy organic foods are and how beneficial their farming techniques are for the environment, there s still confusion over what it all means. All across the country, and especially in food-savvy Westchester, more consumers are interested not only in what...

According to the Royal Geographical Society, Massive demand for chicken has led to factory battery farming which provides ideal conditions for viruses to spread orally and via excreta which inevitably contaminates food in the cramped conditions that most birds are kept in. DEFRA said compensation was paid to the owners of healthy animals destroyed due to disease prevention as an incentive for diseases to be reported early. They should be fined! But due to political influence government...

It is irrefutable; meat eaters are responsible for more greenhouse gases than vegetarians, not to mention land clearing, bird flu and mad cow disease. Yes, if I was in a aeroplane crash and had been starving in the jungle for three weeks and there was no possibility of imminent rescue I would eat meat to survive. Tapeworms are commonly contracted from undercooked meat; too much red meat increases the risk of some kinds of cancer and there are high levels of cholesterol and fat found in...

Since the 16th century, when the Portuguese crown conceded vast captaincies to early colonists, land and power have been distributed unevenly in Brazil. Since 1995 governments have settled some 900,000 families4m-5m peoplein farming colonies, though sometimes in appalling conditions. Part revolution and part ritual, Red April commemorates the killing 11 years ago of 19 landless protestors by police in the Amazonian state of Par and promotes the martyrs' cause, the redistribution of land....