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	<title>Hawaii Agriculture &#187; Organic Ag</title>
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		<title>Farmers turn away from organic as sales drop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The economic downturn means organic farmers are less likely to reap rewards of premium prices for their produce
Farmers across the UK have been deserting organic farming, or holding back on plans to convert their land to more environmentally friendly farming methods, as sales of organic products have fallen in the economic downturn.
Last year, only 51,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German investigators confident that local sprouts caused the deadly E. coli outbreak</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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BERLIN — Specialists in high-tech labs tested thousands of vegetables as they hunted for the source of world’s deadliest E. coli outbreak, but in the end it was old-fashioned detective work that provided the answer: German-grown sprouts.
After more than a month of searching, health officials announced Friday they had determined that sprouts from an organic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E. coli-infected cucumbers may have been sent to Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 21:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination with a potentially deadly bacteria are being recalled from stores in Austria and the Czech Republic to prevent the spread of a deadly outbreak, officials said Sunday.
The death toll from the bacteria rose to at least 10 people, and hundreds across Europe have been sickened.]]></description>
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		<title>Local Lettuce with Certified Food Safety labeling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 17:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Contributed by Alan Rudo
I&#8217;ve lost my confidence in buying local lettuce after purchasing a head of Romaine with a slug inside from a vendor at Pahoa&#8217;s Farmer&#8217;s Market this past Sunday. What really makes me angry was the labeling, which read, “Hamakua Springs:Certified Food Safety.” It wasn&#8217;t until, I went to wash the lettuce, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically modified crops get boost over organics with recent USDA rulings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GMO]]></category>
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At the supermarket, most shoppers are oblivious to a battle raging within U.S. agriculture and the Obama administration’s role in it. Two thriving but opposing sectors — organics and genetically engineered crops — have been warring on the farm, in the courts and in Washington.
Organic growers say that, without safeguards, their foods will be contaminated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side of “the Mainland”: what’s under the courgette’s petticoat « Hawai&#8217;i Is My Mainland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kaui
The most useful blog in my world is Hawaii Agriculture. They keep up to date, and really cover the field (and sometimes stray into the ocean and forest.)  A recent post alerted me to potential perils in the produce section: http://hawaii-agriculture.com/hawaii-agriculture-blog/west-hawaii-today-features-food-sustainability-a-kona-vores-dilemma/ right here in Kona.   The issue is produce that isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic inspection classes set for Hilo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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Unique opportunity for those interested, or already involved, in a related career
A unique opportunity is available for organic inspectors or those interested in working in the organic field &#8212; including county extension agents, regulatory agency staff, organic processors and industry activists &#8212; in order to better understand the organic inspection and certification process.
The county Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prince Charles Dishes Organic Dirt in ‘Harmony’ on NBC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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The heir to the British throne prunes brambles with a hand sickle and empties buckets of compost in “Harmony,” a documentary on NBC that showcases Prince Charles’s pet environmental causes.Enlarge This Image
The film, made by the independent filmmakers Julie Bergman Sender and Stuart Sender, is part of a royal twofer being broadcast on Friday evening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create healthy soil in your own backyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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by Diana Duff
If you are thinking you can&#8217;t grow food in your garden, think again. Many Kona residents don&#8217;t plant edible gardens believing they haven&#8217;t got good soil. Yes, we are soil-challenged here, but help is just a few months of easy recycling away.
We all have rocky soil. At lower elevations, soils are not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Chinese farmers sowing seeds for organic revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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By William Wan Washington Post Foreign Service
IN CHONGMING ISLAND, CHINA The small-scale farmer is a dying breed in China, made up mostly of the elderly left behind in the mass exodus of migrant workers to much higher-paying jobs in industrial cities.
But on an island called Chongming, a two-hour drive east of Shanghai, a group of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Program Chopped</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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The state’s only organic-certifying body, the Hawaii Organic Farmers Association (HOFA), will suspend its program this month, forcing organic farmers in Hawaii to look to the mainland for certification.
Rising costs and a limited client pool prompted the Hilo-based group to end certification, which it began in 1993. HOFA certifies a bounty of products – from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ML&amp;P stock investor taking over Kapalua Farms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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By HARRY EAGAR, Staff Writer
 Pierre Omidyar, who invested in Maui Land &#38; Pineapple Co. stock when the company was being pushed in a greener direction, is now supporting a for-profit/charitable combination that is taking over ML&#38;P&#8217;s Kapalua Farms, one of the largest organic farms in the state.
Since ML&#38;P also closed its Maui Pineapple Co. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile &#8216;biochar&#8217; machine to work the fields &#124; Green Tech &#8211; CNET News</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile &#8216;biochar&#8217; machine to work the fields
by Martin LaMonica
An ancient technique to fertilize soil by creating charcoal from plant waste is being revived to tackle some of today&#8217;s environmental problems. 
The latest company to pursue manmade charcoal, called biochar, is Biochar Systems, which has developed a biochar-making machine that can be pulled by a pickup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Agriculture Transition Website Launched</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BBC NEWS &#124; Science/Nature &#124; Local food &#8216;greener than organic&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Local food &#8216;greener than organic&#8217;Organic apples, BBCFood should come from within your area, the report saysLocal food is usually more &#8220;green&#8221; than organic food, according to a report published in the journal Food Policy.
The authors say organic farming is also valuable, but people can help the environment even more by buying food from within a [...]]]></description>
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