It's been a disheartening spring for Tennessee growers and the effects will linger into summer. The sudden cold snap wiped out many fruit crops and hurt the state's corn and wheat. Since Tennessean.com does not control user submitted statements, we cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted on our Web site. Wheat was devastated, but farmers salvaged some of it for hay. Growers covered them, and used sprinklers to form an ice barrier on...

More than two months after the USA began a massive pet-food recall, since linked to contaminated ingredients imported from China, business and government officials in China are investigating what went wrong and promising improvement in a country where mass poisonings from tainted foods have been common. More than two months after the USA began a massive pet-food recall, since linked to contaminated ingredients imported from China, business and government officials in China are...

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Food and Drug Administration, Nelson said any melamine the fish consume is likely to pass out of their systems in a matter of days, won't accumulate in their bodies, and poses no danger to people who might eat the salmon, which wouldn't be consumed until after returning from the sea years from now. But some hatchery operators might be forced to continue feeding the product to their captive fish for lack of substitute feed, said Patti Nelson, the state's deputy director for commercial fisheries.

Organic wheat berries are soaked in filtered water until they sprout, then ground into the dough that is the base for Alvarado's breads and other products. Operating 20 hours daily, seven days a week, the Rohnert Park bakery produces 280,000 loaves a week, barely meeting demand for its whole-grain sprouted-wheat breads, bagels and other baked goods. From its beginnings three decades ago in the corner of a Santa Rosa warehouse, the employee-owned bakery has risen to become a leader in the...