Local foods flavor college cafeterias
Louella Hill has found a sure-fire method for spreading her passion for locally grown food to students at her alma mater, Brown University: She has produced a calendar, titled "Ripe,"...
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Federal farm disaster aid warps system, critics say
Randy Floyd says 2004 was a good year for his struggling cotton farm, by which he means a hailstorm in October wiped out only part of his crop. For seven...
Dairy insider has clout in setting prices
Tucked at the back of the chaotic trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, behind the flashing electronic signs that show the prices of pork belly futures and foreign currencies,...
3 others quitting low-profile posts in Bush Cabinet
One will be remembered for keeping a lid on mad cows. Another's tenure was marked by a controversial and sweeping education reform plan. And a third tried to do the...
Iowa tallies as Bush gets N.M., Kerry Wisconsin
President Bush won New Mexico and held a narrow lead in Iowa, while Sen. John Kerry took Wisconsin as the final three battleground races ground near a finish Wednesday. In...
First-time voters flock to the polls
Michael Froelich didn't follow the presidential race much. He didn't even get around to registering to vote until Election Day. But the 20-year-old junior joined millions of other young people...
Efforts to woo voters go down to final bell
Both presidential candidates spent part of their last full day of campaigning in Wisconsin. But the race wasn't over yet late Tuesday. With about a third of the state's vote...
Surge at polls, but no clear winner in close race
Though both presidential candidates had spent part of their last full day campaigning in Wisconsin, the race for the state's 10 electoral votes was far from over early Wednesday. Sen....
Bush’s Cabinet sweeps key states prior to Nov. 2
William Hawks, a top Agriculture Department official, traveled to Maine recently to tell dairy farmers about the progress of a nationwide animal identification system to limit damage from outbreaks such...
At some farms, it’s ‘hog hell’
The odor knocks visitors off balance the moment they walk in the battered front door of HKY Farm. It's not so much a barnyard smell as a noxious combination of...