Being thankful for the good food movement.
The thing that I'm most thankful for on Turkey Day is not the abundance of food at my family's table, but the rebels who produced it. No, not Butterball. And not Wal-Mart, General Foods or any of the other corporate powers that loom large over America's food...

Monsanto's Roundup Ready 2 Yield(TM) Soybeans Receive European Union Regulatory Import Approval.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Another key regulatory milestone has been achieved as one of the most anticipated U.S. soybean technologies approaches commercialization. Monsanto Company announced today it has received regulatory approval in the European Union for the importation of Roundup Ready 2 Yield(TM) soybeans. This approval follows...

Syngenta, Dow AgroSciences Jointly to Develop Dow Compounds for Use in Syngenta Seed Care.
INDIANAPOLIS and BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences today announced a research and development agreement to evaluate current and future Dow AgroSciences compounds for incorporation into Syngenta's market-leading seed treatment portfolio. Dow AgroSciences and Syngenta will target opportunities to maximize crop vigor and...

OTC Financial Network Issues Corporate Profile on US Farms, Inc.
- Multiple, High-Margin Farming and Nursery Products Create Upside Potential - SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- US Farms, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: USFM) , a diversified commercial Farming and Nursery company, announced today that OTC Financial Network (OTCFN), a division of National Financial Communications Corp. (NFC), has...

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels' Achievements, Presents Company With South Africa Biofuel Feedstock Market Share Advancement Award.
LONDON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 Frost & Sullivan South Africa Biofuel Feedstock Market Share Advancement Award is presented to Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels (RNRF). The company is building the biggest soybean processing facility in Africa, a particularly strategic choice of location since South Africa has the greatest...

Let's talk turkey at Thanksgiving.
Byline: Michael Kane Though the first Thanksgiving can be attributed to Pilgrims celebrating a grand harvest, it was President Abraham Lincoln who made it an official national holiday in 1863 by calling for a national day of thanksgiving to be held on the last Thursday of November....

Facts to ponder on Turkey Day.
Byline: Michael Kane Though the first Thanksgiving can be attributed to Pilgrims celebrating a grand harvest, it was President Abraham Lincoln who made it an official national holiday in 1863 by calling for a national day of thanksgiving to be held on the last Thursday of November....

African American farmers and civil rights.
FORTY ACRES AND A MULE." JUDGE PAUL L. FRIEDMAN BEGAN HIS 1999 decision in Pigford v. Glickman, the successful class-action suit brought by African American farmers, with that familiar broken promise from the Civil War/Reconstruction era. The case concerned the sorry civil rights record of the U.S. Department of...

The Charity Register 2008-2009.
AN INTRODUCTION TO 218 SARASOTA CAUSES. WELCOME TO OUR ANNUAL compilation of local nonprofits that give to the needy, heal the sick and further the intellectual, cultural and humanitarian pursuits of us all. In addition to holding 501 (c)3 nonprofit certification, each of these organizations...

Right to food in Asia and the Pacific; (Keynote speech delivered at the FAO World Food Day for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok on Oct. 17, 2007).
Byline: LEONARDO Q. MONTEMAYOR, National President, Federation of Free Farmers IT is my great honor and pleasure to join you in today's regional observance of World Food Day on the theme of "The Right-to-Food." All of us, I am certain, are inspired by the presence...