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  • USDA Establishes Healthier Standards For School Meals


    Newsroom Magazine — Authority Authority: 123
    USDA built the new rule around recommendations from a panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine —a gold standard for evidence-based health analysis. The standards were also updated with key changes from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans – the Federal government’s benchmark for nutrition – ...
    17 hours ago

  • New school food coming


    Off the Kuff — Authority Authority: 124
    No more mystery meat . School lunches, long saddled with an unhealthy reputation, are getting a makeover. Instead of salt-doused fried foods, highly processed white bread and sugar-laden desserts, cafeteria trays will be carrying whole wheat pizza, leafy green and orange vegetables and fresh fruit. The ...
    18 hours ago

  • Finding A Student Loan Company That You Can Live With


    All Time Finance — Authority Authority: 141
    Regardless of whether you’re about to head off for college as a brand new freshman, or have already spent some time there and are returning to total your degree, you may have come for the realization that you’ll must borrow cash to fund your college years somewhere along the way. And you won’t be the only 1; ...
    2 days ago

  • USDA gives ZeaChem conditional commitment on $232M loan guarantee


    Biofuels Digest — Authority Authority: 504
    ZeaChems integrated biorefinery site in Boardman, Oregon In Colorado, Zeachem has received a conditional commitment for a $232.5 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 9003 Biorefinery Assistance Program. The total project cost for the 25 million gallon per year biorefinery is ...
    3 days ago

  • Timberland Eco-labels Go Beyond Green Info


    Triple Pundit — Authority Authority: 614
    In 2007, Timberland pioneered eco-labels on their apparel, modeling them after USDA nutrition labels. The imitation was deliberate, said VP of Corporate Social Responsibility, Mark Newton. With the wealth of green information that is currently tracked, measured, analyzed and debated, the intent was to capture the ...
    4 days ago

  • 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map


    Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority Authority: 527
    The 2012 USDA plant hardiness zone map has been released. The niftiest thing about this latest release is the interactive online aspect. The USDA plant hardiness zone map shows the average lowest temperature in an area over time and is mainly used by gardeners and growers to determine which plants will be able to ...
    4 days ago

  • Lemon Grass: A Guru Review.


    Syracuse Guru — Authority Authority: 108
    There are very few places to get Thai food in the entire Upstate area but there is definitely one place that holds the crown as the best. Being a lover of extremely hot foods from all Asian food cultures, Thai cuisine has always fascinated me. Maybe not quite as much as Vietnamese classics like pho [...]
    5 days ago

  • Fiberight cellulosic ethanol project lands $25M USDA loan guarantee


    Biofuels Digest — Authority Authority: 504
    In Washington, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA has approved a conditional commitment for a $25 million guaranteed loan for the proposed Fiberight biorefinery, based in Blairstown, Iowa. USDA funding will be used to construct a 55,000 square foot facility that will produce cellulosic ...
    1 week ago

  • GA & AL to Receive Additional Natural Disaster Assistance


    Southeast AgNET — Authority Authority: 477
    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced an important package of disaster assistance to help farmers, land owners, communities and others recover and rebuild after a year in which a wave of natural disasters swept across all regions of the United States. AL: Download Audio GA: Download Audio
    1 week ago

  • GE Crops Continue to Get Approvals


    Organic Common Sense — Authority Authority: 502
    On Dec. 21, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a controversial strain of GE drought-resistant corn formulated by Monsanto. The USDA heard from more than 45,000 people and organizations that were opposed to the company’s approval petition on GE corn, and the agency only received 21 comments in ...
    1 week ago

  • Smacked With Almost Three Dozen Charges


    The PETA Files — Authority Authority: 121
    Courtesy of USDA Over the years, the Liebel Family Circus has tried to evade scrutiny by operating under avariety of different names, but owner Hugo Liebels deplorable treatment ofanimals continues to catch up with him. Having already been fined nearly $3,000for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, ...
    1 week ago

  • Super Tracker Yields Super Nutrition Data


    Food+Tech Connect — Authority Authority: 481
    The advice awaited me in my inbox Monday morning. “Use fat-free or low-fat evaporated milk in place of cream in coffee and tea for a smooth taste, more calcium, and little or no fat.”  Low fat evaporated milk? I thought. Why would anyone recommend evaporated milk for healthy eating? The email was one of a [[ ...
    1 week ago

  • Finding A Student Loan Company That You Can Live With


    Bad Credit Loans - Secured Bad Credit Loans — Authority Authority: 110
    Regardless of whether you’re about to head off for college as a groundbreaking new freshman, or have already spent some time there and are returning to total your degree, you may have come for the realization that you’ll must borrow cash to fund your college years somewhere along the way. And you won’t be the ...
    1 week ago

  • Can I Survive At the Poverty Line?


    YourFinancesSimplified — Authority Authority: 600
    I completed my interview with 107 WINA on Sunday December 18th concerning my article on “Can you survive the poverty line”. I would like to thank Wendy Edwards for reaching out to me and giving me the opportunity to conduct the interview.   Unfortunately, WINA did not post a podcast of the interview on their ...
    1 week ago

  • Land Between the Lakes Educational Field Trip Grants Available


    Clarksville, TN Online — Authority Authority: 510
    Golden Pond, KY - Are you an educator interested in planning a field trip to experience the Land Between The Lakes (LBL) “outdoor classroom”?  If so, now is the time to apply for LBL’s Educational Field Trip Grant for the 2012-2013 school year.  The deadline for the field trip grant application is April 30th, ...
    1 week ago

  • Mortgage Programs To Purchase Foreclosed Property


    NC FHA Expert — Authority Authority: 100
    There are tons of people who know that we are at or near the bottom of the real estate market, and they are ready to purchase a home.  Many of the folks we are talking to are looking at foreclosed property, because they believe they can get the best deals.  There are some special points [...]
    1 week ago

  • NC Counties That Qualify for USDA Home Loans


    NC FHA Expert — Authority Authority: 100
    My daddy always says that we “Get Rural Fast” in North Carolina… one minute you can be neighborhood after neighborhood, and 25 minutes later you are in the country! This works well for those who are looking for a home with no down payment requirements! Every square mile of 73 North Carolina counties qualify for ...
    1 week ago

  • Black farmers finally granted relief


    BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority Authority: 474
    Less equal than others in the eyes of the government : We went to the (U.S. Department of Agriculture) to try to get a loan. My father, my mother, my grandfather and we were denied because of our race,” farmer Troy Murray said Monday. Murray said he wonders why the settlement took so long. “Why did it wait ...
    1 week ago

  • Rumor: a single food safety agency at long last?


    Food Politics — Authority Authority: 500
    According to rumors passed along by Dan Flynn at Food Safety News via the Hagstrom Report (an agricultural subscription news service costing $999 a year), the Office of Management and Budget wants to merge federal agencies, among them the food safety components of FDA and USDA. Rumors are that the Obama ...
    1 week ago

  • Top 5 Power Lunch Restaurants in Palm Beach


    Haute Living Magazine — Authority Authority: 592
    Check out Haute Living’s best power lunch restaurant choices in Palm Beach
    1 week ago

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