But our tendency to accept what we're offered may have positive value when it comes to encouraging children to choose and eat healthier food at school. The USDA also plans a multibillion-dollar effort to expand the consumption of fruit and vegetables served in school cafeterias over the next 10 years. It's that kind of simple strategy that school administrators, government officials and parents need to employ to help stem the childhood obesity problem. They suggest, she says, that if the...

Department of Agriculture has been collecting data on what's in food for more than 100 years. When we searched for "trans fat," for example, up came a technical scientific paper about food analysis that only laboratory wonks would find useful. Wondering about the side effects of that new drug your doctor prescribed? Want advice on how to cope with a new diagnosis? Should you believe reports that calcium can prevent colon cancer? Also receiving a "Better than Most" rating: the pork...

Mystery bee killer threatens America s fruit and veg American farmers face a make-or-break summer as the honeybee population struggles to recover from a mysterious killer that threatens to destroy crops and deplete the nation s dinner plates. Mystery bee killer threatens America s fruit and veg American farmers face a make-or-break summer as the honeybee population struggles to recover from a mysterious killer that threatens to destroy crops and deplete the nation s dinner plates....

Make no mistake Farmers are gamblers in that all crops are a gamble till they are taken out of the field during harvest. These prices have created intentions to increase corn production by over 15% to over 90 million acres, to meet the requirements of the food industry and energy producers. Because of crop insurance that set at high prices many farmers will plant the corn regardless of when it gets into the ground, they are guaranteed their price by the government. But farmers will tell...

KIUC was selected to receive the grant as part of the USDA s Rural Economic Development Land and Grant program, in which utility cooperatives receive grants and pass the funding on to projects that will create and retain employment in rural areas. It s unusual for an organization to have such wonderful living collections in the gardens and next to it a really comprehensive library and research center, Leopold said. The gardens, in turn, will use the money to help fund its new research...