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Is milk healthy? Canada's new food guide says not necessarily
BBC | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Food NewsCanada has released a new food guide, and one thing is noticeably missing - a daily dose of dairy.
Rural America’s dramatic decline
Farm and Dairy | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Rural NewsThe gap between America’s rural poor and non-poor, like in urban America, continues to widen. The difference in rural America, however, is that the gap is widening faster than in any of the nation’s grittiest cities or suburban counties.That’s the conclusion of two recent reports by the U.S.
Rural America is ready for some sort of a New Deal
Storm Lake News | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Rural NewsRural America needs a new deal, or at least a better deal, and if it’s green all the better. Farm loan delinquencies are rising to levels not seen since the Farm Debt Crisis of the 1980s, from which the rural Midwest never really recovered. Nearly a third of Iowa farmers growing corn and soybeans caught up in a trade war with China are said to be under extreme stress, according to Iowa State University. They’re the younger ones.Rural communities are draining young people. Two-thirds of Iowa’s 99 counties are losing population and prospects as manufacturing jobs leach out of the Midwest.
African swine fever could spread in animal feed
Watt Ag Net | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Agriculture NewsNew research out of Kansas State University has confirmed that animal feed contaminated with African swine fever (ASF) virus can sicken swine, prompting scientists and industry leaders to call for caution among feed producers and importers.
Rural Investments could be the next big opportunity
Daily Yonder | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Rural NewsRural America’s slow recovery from the Great Recession isn’t entirely bad news, says the founder of the Rural Opportunity Initiative. For smart public and private investors, it could provide a chance to get ahead of the pack. Rural companies and entrepreneurs in the U.S. share many similarities and common challenges with those in the developing world, McKenna says, a fact that made Georgetown, with its global economic development focus, a natural home for the initiative. One of those common challenges?
Does the Aesthetic Impact of Wind Turbines Constitute a Nuisance?
Texas A&M | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Energy NewsHowever, not everyone is a fan of wind farms or the look of the wind turbines dotting the skyline across the Lone Star State. This has led to an interesting question: Can claimed negative aesthetic impact of a wind project by a neighboring landowner constitute a nuisance under Texas law?In Rankin v.
Examining Food Loss and Food Waste in the United States
Choices | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Food NewsGrant, Gallardo, and McCluskey shed new light on how consumers may adjust food waste patterns in the presence of innovations designed to replace or complement other package information about food quality and food safety. This work develops a choice experiment with options involving raw ingredients and ready-to-eat meals as a way to evaluate one dimension of consumers’ willingness to pay for reduced food waste. The authors find evidence that consumers are willing to pay more for initiatives that increase food shelf life which may lead to a reduction in food waste.
Editorial: Rural development will cost North Charleston taxpayers
The Post and Courier | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Rural NewsOn Monday, the North Charleston Planning Commission will consider a rezoning request that would allow as many as 1,000 residences to be built in a dense community in the middle of an entirely rural area next to the Ashley River Historic District. Unfortunately, the alternative would be even worse.The rezoning request would affect a 4,000-acre tract west of S.C.
Drugs took their children, but not their hope that others might be saved
Boston Globe | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in Rural NewsDuring the last six years of her short life, Emma Franchek spent at least half her days in one type of treatment or another, seeking care for addiction and mental illness. Psych wards, detoxes, rehabs, sober houses — none gave Emma lasting help. But she kept trying, until her 4-foot-11 frame, a dancer’s delicate body, was found in a squalid restaurant bathroom in Boston. She had fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and sedatives in her blood. Emma was 24.Now, as he looks back at her experiences, Jim sometimes wonders whether the disease really was too powerful — or the help provided too weak.
Connecticut “Big 6” Ban Passes Committee
Sportsmen Alliance | Posted onMarch 13, 2019 in SARL Members and Alumni NewsConnecticut Sen. Bob Duff’s (D-Norwalk) proposed Senate Bill 20 would ban the import, sale and possession of what he calls “the Big Six” African species; African elephants, lions, leopards, black rhinoceros, white rhinoceros and giraffes. The Joint Committee on Environment voted 24-5, sending the bill to the Senate Floor for a possible vote at any time.