Can any type of agricultural product become certified organic? Yes, any agricultural product that meets third-party or state-certification requirements may be considered organic. Nonfood organic products (personal care products, nutritional supplements, household cleaners, flowers, pet food and clothing, bedding and other products from organic fibers such as flax, wool and cotton) grew 32. Pollution and climate change are now drawing worldwide attention, and one result of increasing...

Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in China shot corn prices to record highs prices that later wilted. Inside Bay Area - Corn farmers rush to meet ethanol demand. On farms across the nation, the lure of more than $100 an acre from corn is too good to pass up in an industry whose fortunes depend on fickle weather,...

The economic coordination committee (ECC) of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz also allowed setting up of a 450MW thermal plant in central Punjab, lifted a restriction on foreign insurance companies from raising local equity, eased import of machinery and equipment for services industries and decided not to allow export of pulses at any cost. The economic coordination committee (ECC) of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz also allowed setting up of a 450MW thermal...

Robertson County, like other counties in Tennessee, is experiencing a decline in the production of tobacco, a crop that once fueled the economies of farming communities across the state. The state wants to more than double agricultural enhancement grants, to $11 million this year, in part to help farmers get out of tobacco and into more profitable agricultural ventures. According to a recently released USDA report, 750 fewer acres of tobacco will be planted in the Volunteer State this year...

What happens is that because the same ground is used for different crops which each make different demands (on the soil), if you don't put anything in the soil it will quickly become exhausted; it becomes depleted because crops will extract nutrients from the ground. What happens is that because the same ground is used for different crops which each make different demands (on the soil), if you don't put anything in the soil it will quickly become exhausted; it becomes depleted because...