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Agriculture
1:58 pm
Tue April 23, 2013

Want To Forage In Your City? There's A Map For That

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Falling Fruit tells you where you can pick peaches and other foods free for the taking around the world.
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Jeff Wanner stands among the 500 pounds of apples he picked from neighborhood trees in a couple of hours with Falling Fruit co-founder Ethan Welty in Boulder, Colo., last fall.
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A screenshot of the Falling Fruit interactive map
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Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 10:25 am

If you really love your peaches and want to shake a tree, there's a map to help you find one. That goes for veggies, nuts, berries and hundreds of other edible plant species, too.

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Agriculture
10:16 am
Mon March 18, 2013

GMO labeling laws on deck in the Midwest

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Labels at Swiss Meat and Sausage Co. near Hermann, Mo., do not indicate if products contain genetically modified organisms.
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At Swiss Meat and Sausage Co., production manager Glenn Brandt steps into a 34-degree Fahrenheit cooler where 700-pound cow carcasses hang from meat hooks to dry.
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In the company's packaging room, Brandt reads from a hefty roll of hickory smoked beef sausage stickers: “No antibiotics added, raised without added hormones, all natural, minimally processed."
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Swiss Meat customers may not be asking for GMO labeling but polls show over 90 percent of Americans are interested in knowing if there are GMOs in their food.
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The company processes 2 million pounds of meat a year -- from beef to pork to buffalo to deer.
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Just south of Hermann, Mo., Swiss Meat and Sausage Co. processes 2 million pounds of meat a year -- everything from cattle to hogs to buffalo to elk.

And everything gets a label.

“No antibiotics added, raised without added hormones, all natural, minimally processed," Glenn Brandt, the production manager for Swiss Meat, reads from a hefty roll of hickory smoked beef sausage stickers.

What this label does not indicate, however, is whether or not the sausage contains genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

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10:21 am
Wed September 26, 2012

Help us map the drought

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The skies have been cloudy this week but a little rain can't erase the effects of this last summer's drought, widely considered to be the worst in decades. Like most things, some fare better than others and some even worse. Help us map the drought What does your farm and rangeland look like? How has your year been? Are you going to survive the drought? Send us some details and a picture by clicking below.
Parts of the Midwest got a reprieve from the drought this week, according to the latest US Drought Monitor report released on Thursday. The report found
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