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• Manure-to-Electricity: Dairy Farmers Get Their Crap Together

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 508
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced an agreement with U.S. dairy producers to accelerate adoption of innovative manure to energy projects on American dairy farms. The agreement represents a dynamic public/private partnership and is another demonstration of the Obama Administration’s commitment to curb the ...
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• Rajiv Shah’s nomination as USAID chief confirmed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 25 (IANS) The United States Senate has approved the nomination of Rajiv Shah to head the US Agency for International Development (USAID), making him the highest ranking Indian American in the Obama administration.The Senate unanimously Thursday confirmed the nomination of Shah, 36, and ...
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• USDA will Purchase Cheese from CCC

  
  World Dairy Diary — Authority: 431
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that approximately $60 million in cheese and cheese products will be purchased by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for use in domestic feeding programs through USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. USDA is expediting this cheese purchase to ...
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• Colorado’s struggling dairy farmers get a boost

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 615
  Struggling dairy farmers in Colorado and the nation received a $290 million boost from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday. (flickr, cc; Jelles) Starting Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will make one-time payments to dairy farmers, based on the amount of milk produced and marketed ...
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• New USDA program targets struggling dairy farmers

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 651
  The nation’s struggling dairy farmers received a $290 million boost from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday. The department is implementing a new program, the Dairy Economic Loss Assistance Program, which was authorized by the 2010 agriculture appropriations bill and will provide loss assistance payments ...
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• A Warning To Outdoor Users About Echinococcus, From Worms

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 487
  This is a warning to outdoor users about a potentially deadly biological event that could result from one’s curiosity to poke at and kick through scat from wolves, coyotes and foxes. Of course not everyone knowingly does this but many hunters, trappers and simply the curious, want to know what these animals have ...
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• Are holiday and weekend eating patterns affecting obesity rates?

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 622
  PITTSBURGH -- The holidays can be challenging for even the most diligent dieters. But are weekends just as detrimental? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., found that weekend eating patterns change significantly. ...
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• Meat for Public Schools Often Rejected by Fast Food Chains

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 785
  Filed under: Investigations , Education An investigation finds the federal government provides schools with meat that many fast food restaurants would reject. McDonalds, Burger King, Jack in the Box and other chains are more rigorous than the Department of Agriculture when it comes to checking beef and chicken ...
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• Heres a novel idea

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 155
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem "Stop USDA loans to factory farms" : The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using our tax dollars to make loans to hog and poultry factory farms at a time when we have too many factory farms, too much pork and poultry on the market, and record-low ...
  3 weeks ago

• Announcing Book Winner In My SEWRPC Guess-The-Date Contest

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 155
  Original Author:  jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen) The winner of a fabulous prize: Jim Bouman, Waukesha activist and blogger. Let me explain: A few months ago, as we were approaching the one-year anniversary of an inexplicably stalled federal review of SEWRPCs authority to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Giving Thanks and Giving Back: A Family Spends Thanksgiving Volunteering…at a Country Line Dancing Bar

  
  The New Service — Authority: 118
  Local church youth group volunteers making some plates to go This guest post is contributed by Jung Fitzpatrick, a former AmeriCorps VISTA member, and staffer here at Idealist.org. When I called my mom about going home for the Thanksgiving holiday, she told me she was going to volunteer at the Brandin’ Iron . ...
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• Rise in food stamp cases shows that many more New Mexicans are going hungry

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 607
  Photo by Mills Baker Here’s another sign of how the poor economy is affecting New Mexico: state data show that 70,000 more New Mexicans are using food stamps than just a year ago. According to data from the  New Mexico Human Services Department , individual use of the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance ...
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• Mean old levee

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 622
  >>>>>Its a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan >>>>>Its a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan >>>>>Gonna leave my baby, and my happy home
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• UT researchers switch to switchgrass for biofuel

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 447
  Amid all sorts of defiance to biofuel production practices by the staunch enviro-thinkers worldwide, the researches are doing well to pacify their doubts regarding the land use and energy conversion ratio. Earlier, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers in a separate study discovered that ethanol derived ...
  4 weeks ago

• New discovery could make plants disease resistant and high-yielding

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Washington, November 22 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have shown how a family of genes are responsible for production of ethylene gas, a discovery that could make plants disease resistant, able to survive and thrive in difficult terrain, increase yields, and other useful agronomical outcomes. This discovery of ...
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• The Oyster Bar: Important Things to Consider for a Party or Wedding Reception

  
  Cater-Hater — Authority: 123
  Did you know that as oysters are being formed, that like wine - they take on the character of the location where theyre grown? And did you know that 95% of farmed oysters are sold to restaurants? But get this... Unlike wine sales, that have dropped 2.7% since 2008 (according to a June article in Brandweek), oysters ...
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• Its a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 622
  In a research report published in the November 2009 issue of the journal GENETICS ( http://www.genetics.org ), scientists show how a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethylene.
  5 weeks ago

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