Suppliers who substitute cheaper ingredients for the real thing seldom get busted because the government and private labs review few of the products flooding in. Fad-driven supplements are particularly vulnerable a rush of demand for a pill with an expensive key ingredient such as chondroitin can present a quick-buck opportunity. LOS ANGELES American consumers are being ripped off and their health possibly put at risk because of bogus ingredients slipped into imports ranging from...

Hay, whether in the form of high nutrition alfalfa in the United States or roadside grass in some parts of the world, is harvested and stored for winter animal feed. It's the basic feed for milk production. A man with a fork fed the hay from a pickup into the machine while yet another drove the tractor. It was one of the toughest jobs on the farm, even worse than harvesting tobacco, often considered the "backbreaker'' in the Dane, Rock and Vernon county tobacco areas. The long green...

Tennessee beef, forage field day scheduled June 14 subscribe. DiPietro, UT vice-president for agriculture, and Ken Givens, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, participants will assemble into groups to attend morning sessions that address how to select a commercial squeeze chute for cattle management, hay barn plans and planning, and profitable hay production. DiPietro, UT vice-president for agriculture, and Ken Givens, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of...

Producers have had difficulties in baling early-season hay, but some hay cutting has resumed. Producers in the Southwest region were also able to bale hay for a time, but rain interrupted the process for many, Fromme said. Although high winds and hail damaged crops in some regions, beneficial weather conditions throughout most of the state helped farmers and cattle producers, Texas Cooperative Extension reports stated. However, wheat production was hindered by isolated hail storms in the...

Rosenwald Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 15, 2007; Page D01 The nation's unquenchable thirst for gasoline -- and finding an alternative to what's been called our addiction to oil -- has produced an unintended consequence: The cost of the foods that fuel our bodies has jumped. Rosenwald Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 15, 2007; Page D01 The nation's unquenchable thirst for gasoline -- and finding an alternative to what's been called our addiction to oil -- has produced...