PALO ALTO, Calif. — Critics began panning the first leg of California’s futuristic high-speed rail network as a “train to nowhere” soon after officials decided to build it not in the major population centers of Los Angeles or San Francisco, but through the state’s Central Valley farming belt. Read full article > >
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Plans for high-speed rail are slowing down
New research has found that radioactive material in parts of north-eastern Japan exceeds levels considered safe for farming.
EL BARRIL, Mexico — The Mexican government is allowing domestic marijuana and opium poppy production to climb to record levels, as soldiers who once cut and burned illegal crops here in the vast Sierra Madre mountains are being redeployed to cities to wage urban warfare against criminal gangs. Since President Felipe Calderon ordered his troops into the streets in late 2006, the acreage dedicated to marijuana farming has nearly doubled in Mexico, according to technical reports by the U.S. government and the United Nations , data provided by the Mexican military, and interviews with law enforcement agents and growers. Read full article > >
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Mexico’s drug war is giving growers a break
DUITAMA, Colombia — In the Andean mountains of central Colombia , where life’s options range from potato farming to herding goats, boys like Johan Cardenas dream of cycling to glory in the French Alps and Pyrenees. They ride at dawn’s first light for 30 or 40 miles, or often 70, much of it up narrow mountain passes. Then they go again the next day, and the day after, with one goal in mind: to someday be good enough to compete in the great bicycle races of Europe. Read full article > >
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Colombian mountain cyclists try to pedal out of poverty toward glory in Europe
Maureen Drennan doesn’t grow marijuana herself. No does she smoke it. But she has spent the past few years photographing a picturesque little pot farm in California
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Lens Blog: On a California Farm Where Marijuana Grows
Top European farming officials are meeting Tuesday as the continent struggles to deal with an E. coli bacteria outbreak that has killed at least 22 people.
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Official: E. coli outbreak only in Germany
A badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle may not happen, the farming minister tells BBC South West.
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Badger cull ‘may not happen’
Those who say no man is an island never met Danny Hayes. The 61-year-old retired construction supervisor lives in Bogota, Tennessee, a farming community so small that when asked how to find the town, locals respond, “Don’t blink.”
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‘Crazy old’ man waits out flood
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Some anxious Memphis residents have begun leaving low-lying homes as the swollen Mississippi River threatens to crest in coming days just shy of a 48.7-foot record of a devastating 1937 flood. Record river levels are expected to be broken in some areas as the surging river menaces flood-prone areas of Memphis on down through the Mississippi Delta region and into rich Louisiana farming country. In Memphis, the river was expected to crest at 48 feet by Tuesday. Alvin Pearson says people in low areas began leaving for shelters and other higher ground Saturday. Read full article > >
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Memphis, points farther to South, brace for surging Mississippi River; Ky. spared calamity
The next-in-line to the British throne visits an urban farm in LeDroit Park, talks about sustainable farming and honors wounded service members as part of a three-day visit to Washington. Read full article > >
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Prince Charles visits D.C.
Prison labor is nothing new. But officials are now expanding the practice, in areas like farming, to combat cuts in federal financing and dwindling tax revenue.
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Inmates Help States Fill Budget Gaps
Two men die after separate farming accidents in Aberdeenshire over the weekend.
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Men die after farming accidents
Amoebas, some of the most primitive life forms known on Earth, engage in a type of “farming”, taking food with them as they disperse.
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Starving amoebas ‘pack a lunch’
The government pledges £37m to help develop farming practices so that poor countries can cope with climate change.
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UK in £37m overseas farming boost
The bill would give the Food and Drug Administration new powers to order recalls, increase inspections, oversee farming and hold companies accountable.
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Senate Passes Overhaul of Food Safety Regulations
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