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Coming home to industrial ag: A tour of the Central Valley
There’s an image that’s stuck with me from the cross-country drive that my dad and I took last summer. It was one of many late-night stints at the wheel, perhaps 11 p.m., and we were hurtling along through the Utah desert. A sign at the last gas station had warned us of a nearly 100-mile population drought ahead. It was utterly unexpected,
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Pesticides, like the huddled masses, yearn to be free
The Farm Bill is back. (Admit it -- you'd been missing it.) House and Senate ag staffers have taken to lurking in each other's offices and furrowing their brows over what could be a protracted conflict between members of the conference committee, that group of reps and senators assigned to turn the meat
Spray it forward: Pesticide residues in U.S. food
The USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service has released its annual summary (PDF) for its Pesticide Data Program. And it scares me. In 2006, the PDP says it tested 13,658 samples of food and
