New Online Food Site Offers Unique Holiday Gifts from America's Best Regional Artisans.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking for something different, yet affordable, for gift-giving this holiday season? Tired of shopping malls and department stores? Are you an online shopper who wants to give something more interesting than a ho-hum treat tower? If so, RegionalBest.com (http://www.regionalbest.com/), a new e-commerce food site,...

Farm Bill Praised by Environmental Law and Policy Center.
ENERGY RESOURCE-23 May 2008-Farm Bill Praised by Environmental Law and Policy Center(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Howard Learner, executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, applauded the Agriculture Committee leadership for helping override the President's veto of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, also...

"Water is for fighting": federal agencies allied with enviro-activists have declared war on farmers and ranchers in the Western states, forcing residents of the Klamath Basin to fight for their way of life.
Menacing storm clouds have been hovering over the Upper Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border for the past three years. Unfortunately, they are not the kind of clouds that bring rain, which would be most welcome in this beautiful, but arid, high plateau on the eastern slope of the...

Make labels meaningful.
Byline: The Register-Guard By the end of this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will require that packages of beef, pork, lamb or chicken be labeled to identify their country of origin. The labels will help consumers avoid meat from countries where livestock diseases or public health...

Managing a national crisis: the 1924 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in California.
The storms were late in coming to northern California in 1924. In the towns along the east side of San Francisco Bay, businessmen who depended on processing and shipping agricultural products from the state's interior grew concerned. People in Hayward, Oakland, and Berkeley looked out at the dry, brown...

Gone fishin': stream rentals restore trout.
THE UPPER reach of Montana's Wasson Creek is home to a purestrain population of westslope cutthroat trout. But overzealous irrigators regularly dried up the creek downstream during the summer. This kept the trout from migrating to and populating Spring Creek, another tributary that eventually connects with the Blackfoot River....

Food first: an uphill battle looms on the farm bill.
Have you eaten today? Fed dinner to the family, grabbed a snack on the run? Then you've felt the impact of the U.S. farm bill. And so have people who struggle to have enough to eat--both in the United States and in developing countries. The farm bill,...

Oregon at a crossroads: where do we go from here?
I. INTRODUCTION II. WHY PLAN? III. WHAT THE MEASURE MEANS A. Meaning of the Measure: Provisions, Exceptions, and Ambiguities 1. Determining Restriction on Use 2. Calculating Reduction in Fair Market Value 3. Waiver 4. Exemptions 5. Ambiguities and Other Difficulties B. Implications for Land-use Planning in Oregon: Now and...

Center selected to lead national ag safety initiative.
The High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety at the University of Colorado received $504,000 to lead a group of 10 university-based agricultural safety and health research centers in a national initiative to prevent deaths and serious injuries from tractor roll-overs. The two-year grant from...

VonKleist: reporter or provocateur?
In the summer of 2001, the farmers and ranchers of Oregon's Klamath Basin were desperate. They had been wrangling for several years with federal authorities who had been cutting off their water in the peak of growing season. Many were faced with losing their farms. They had been peacefully...