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Sustainability, Resources, Food Safety are Hot Topics

By Heidi Lewis on

Winter Farm Conferences The Monterey Peninsula is one of the most beautiful spots in the world, but it wasn't just the sparkly ocean breeze dancing through the pines that brought a near sell-out …

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Obama Signs Food Safety Act into Law: Small Farms Are Exempted from Some Provisions

By Pia Hinckle on

On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed into law the $1.4 billion Food Safety and Modernization Act, the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food industry in 70 years. The law will give the …

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New Food Safety Bill Passes Senate: Amendments Support Smallest Farms

By Pia Hinckle on

The U.S. Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act (S. 510) on November 30th, 2010, the most sweeping overhaul of food safety regulations of the century, spurred by food-borne illness …

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Preservation Harvest

By Chris Mittelstaedt on

When the price of corn started going up in Exeter, California due to high demand for ethanol, Mr. Herrera, an owner of 22 acres of family farmland, nearly plowed under his 40-year-old plum orchard. …

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