Field crops, processing vegetables and market vegetables will all get some attention at the event, which will include information on organic weed management, cover and companion crops, soil quality, variety selection, vegetable crop trials, and no-till organic production. UW organic field day slated for Aug. Field crops, processing vegetables and market vegetables will all get some attention at the event, which will include information on organic weed management, cover and companion crops,...

Department of Agriculture: No broad-based scientific evidence has declared organic food more healthful than conventional food, according to governmental regulatory agencies and even expert advocates of organic food. So why do an increasing number of customers brave prices up to 100 percent more for organic food? "This is a difficult question," Mattfeldt-Beman says. Conventional-food proponents say one of the reasons organic produce can have more nutrients is that it's harvested later than...

FPL Energy announced plans to partner with a citrus processor and a new energy firm to build one of the world's first processing plants that would convert citrus peels into the gasoline additive ethanol. FPL Energy has a plan to produce cleaner fuel by turning agricultural waste -- citrus peels, specifically -- into ethanol. But while the amount of ethanol produced would be small, the plant's backers say it's a first step toward producing cleaner fuel, bolstering a struggling agricultural...

Felipe Borja, assistant provincial agriculturist here, said that the alarming spread of the disease had prompted the arrival of the plant and fruit disease experts which will stay in the province to see the real situation of the citrus plantations in this landlocked province, especially in mountains of Kasibu town, considered as the region's citrus capital. Felipe Borja, assistant provincial agriculturist here, said that the alarming spread of the disease had prompted the arrival of the...

It will shield the youngest of kids from the least healthful of these companies products on television, kids magazines, and the Internet. Notably, its policy prohibits the use of licensed characters on packages of foods that don t meet their nutrition standards. Hershey, Mars, and Coke have long abstained from advertising any products to audiences largely made up of kids under 12, but they should join Kraft and General Mills, and agree not to market unhealthful food to children in middle...