Wallendas thrill spectators at fair; Lots to see, do through holiday.
Byline: James F. Russell SPENCER - Perfect weather greeted yesterday's large crowd at the 119th Spencer Fair. The fair, which is open through tomorrow, is off Routes 9 and 31. Parking is free. A feature attraction this year is a high-wire act staged...

Reforming rice: Lundberg's greener farms.
Rice farming may look pretty from a distance, with its bucolic images of farmers in conical hats ankle deep in water as they cultivate green sprouts, but it has earned a bad environmental reputation because of its wasteful irrigation systems and incursions into wetlands. And the burning of rice...

HealthBarn USA(R) Compiled Forty-Five All-Natural, Child-Tested Recipes for Holiday Gift-Giving Season.
Nutrition Tips and Commentary from Young Harvesters Included for Online Purchase WYCKOFF, N.J., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthBarn USA(R), a proven leader in healthy-lifestyle education for children and their families and recently featured on CNN House Calls with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, has compiled a family- friendly recipe...

Women and franchise in agricultural organisations: a case study of the Australian sugar industry.
This paper is concerned with women's franchise in agri-political groups, and specifically, the gendered voting system of the Australian agricultural organization, CANEGROWERS. The Australian sugar industry covers three states, but is largely concentrated in Queensland where there are approximately 6500 farms compared with 650 in New South Wales and...

California Wine Has $51.8 Billion Economic Impact on State and $103 Billion on the U.S. Economy.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The California wine industry has an annual impact of $51.8 billion on the state's economy, and an economic impact of $103 billion on the U.S. economy, according to a 25-page report released today by the Wine Institute and California Association of Winegrape Growers...

Don't buy it! The bogus backlash against buying local.
On July 24, the Christian Science Monitor published an article by G. Jeffrey McDonald called "Is Buying Local Really Best?" The story begins by stating that the question of whether to spend your money on local small stores, farmers, and craftspeople is stirring a "sharp debate" about moral questions....

Grass-Fed Traditions Introduces 100% Grass-Fed Galloway Beef.
WEST BEND, Wis., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Grass-Fed Traditions(TM) was launched this week as a division of Tropical Traditions, Inc. They introduced their new product line of 100% grass-fed Galloway beef from their Fall 2006 processing. Their grass-fed beef products join their offerings of grass-fed bison, pastured poultry raised...

Keeping our communities' food secure.
Thinking about food these days can be overwhelming In a world of food overproduction, people across the globe, the nation, and across town do not have enough food to feed their families. On the flip side of the same coin, malnutrition comes in the form of an obesity epidemic....

Nigeria--the engine room of Africa.
The US now gets more oil from Africa than from the Middle East. Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, with 130 million residents. Nigeria is also Africa's largest oil producer and third largest economy (second only to South Africa and Algeria), the world's 11th-largest producer of oil, and fifth-largest...

Booming biofuels: not all biofuels are created equal.
Think globally, act locally. This mantra may soon become I saving grace of the small biofuels producers if they are to remain afloat. Make no mistake: Biofuels are booming Global fuel ethanol production more than doubled between 2000 and 2005, while production of biodiesel expanded nearly fourfold, according to...