Stanfield said, We usually feed 10 and buy a turkey and ham for some of our neighbors, but we re looking at prices and will probably be feeding six or seven this year. There were no parades or football to watch, so Miles Standish Junior was probably more than happy to go pick some berries, spear a fish or gather some nuts. Higher prices at the turkey freezer and shelves from last year weren t turning the shoppers away, although some were downsizing a little. The modern-day version of the...

Production requires large amounts of petroleum, farmland, corn, and water, yet it has questionable alternative energy value, has its own emissions and siting problems, directly competes with food supply, and its transport requires special vehicles instead of pipelines. Smith The road to energy conservation. In arresting climate change and solving related energy issues, we should follow the physicians' oath - first, do no harm - and avoid alternatives with equal or greater impacts than our...

Not only would larger farmers in the South be hurt if this provision passes, but it could harm area tractor dealers, seed producers and retailers, he said. Farmers in central Alabama are likely to shift further away from cotton to soybeans and wheat, which have experienced higher prices lately, he said. A cotton field usually gets picked three times a year in Alabama, so even if drought or frost hurts one growth cycle, farmers can reap some cotton during the other two, he said. The...

Critics also realized that absence of proof that GMOs are harmful is not proof of absence, especially since the Biotech companies are in charge of doing and releasing the research and there are major issues with potential allegens, superweeds, and health effects. Could it be that genetic engineering, like so many things in life, is not black-and-white but many shades of gray? I don t like being pressured to sit on one side of the fence or the other, to make a choice between us and them....

Democrats and Republicans on the Agriculture Committee, backed by crowds of lobbyists, are pulling out all the stops to pass a $288 billion, five-year farm bill, expanding an archaic system of subsidies that government economists say is rapidly shifting billions of dollars to the largest farm operations. And still other senators mock the opponents of the bill that would send $32 billion over five years mostly to large farmers of a few crops during one of the biggest grain price booms on record.