The $13 billion-a-year market for all-natural foods is growing at a faster rate than the overall grocery industry, causing some food companies to misuse the label. For example, soft-drink manufacturers call their products, "100% Natural," when two unhealthy ingredients, high fructose corn syrup and citric acid, happen to derive from natural ingredients, corn and fruit. Sugar growers are petitioning the FDA to stop corn growers from calling high fructose corn syrup all-natural. Dieticians...

While late October rainfall helped to green pastures and recharge ponds, it was too late to help the state's fall crops as yields on all major Tennessee crops were down from a year ago. Cotton yields are down 344 pounds per acre and are expected to average 601 pounds per acre. While corn production in the state is the highest in 87 years, yields fell 17 percent below what they were last year. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise...

Good citrus that's not infected with canker will no longer be unshippable just because some citrus in the grove it's from has the disease, under a new federal rule adopted Friday. The new rule will allow good fruit to be shipped to non-citrus producing states even if other fruit from the same grove is infected. That meant that in an 80-acre grove, for example, if one tree had been infected with canker, all the fruit in the grove was unshippable to other states, even if the other fruit was...

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The reason: The federal government is buying less surplus food from farmers because of the strong farm economy in recent years, and those surpluses are part of what food banks count on to distribute to families in need of food assistance, said officials with America's Second Harvest, the nation's food bank network. El Paso Times - Food surpluses plummet. The reason: The federal government is buying less surplus food from farmers because of the strong farm economy in recent years, and those...