Agriculture & Livestock

Magazine articles on agriculture, livestock, and genetically engineered foods.

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National Gardening Suzanne DeJohn	Organic or Local? Agribusinesses have realized that consumers are willing to pay more for organic produce. Large farms are converting to organic methods to take advantage of this trend and fill the demand. Is this a bad thing?
Scientific American January 2007 Steve Mirsky	Sweet and Soiled Science A growing fear in the northeastern U.S. is that sustained warming will push both the temperature range and the sugar maple range north of the freezing point and border, respectively.
BusinessWeek December 18, 2006 Carey & Aston	Put A Termite In Your Tank Bio breakthroughs are promising much better ways to make ethanol.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2006 Brian Gorman	Monsanto Needs to Charm The company has to confront concerns over genetically modified foods soon if it hopes to keep growing. Investors, take note.
Science News December 2, 2006 Janet Raloff	Organic Dairying Is on Upswing, But No Panacea Some small dairy farms are making the switch to organic operations to increase profits and distinguish their products from undifferentiated commodities.
Chemistry World November 29, 2006 Bea Perks	BASF Touts GM Spuds for Starch German chemical giant BASF is awaiting EU approval for commercial cultivation of one of its latest breakthroughs, an inedible potato called Amflora. The crop has been modified to produce a type of starch particularly suited to paper production.
Fast Company December 1, 2006 Alyssa Danigelis	Prime Partners: EcoLogic Finance That $4.25 you laid out this morning for a venti latte? The farmers who harvested the beans won't see much of it. That was true when coffee prices collapsed in 2001 -- which is when EcoLogic Finance stepped in.
BusinessWeek November 13, 2006 Adrienne Carter	Harvesting Green Power Farmers are sowing the seeds of an alternative energy future. But how much of the country can we fuel on corn?
BusinessWeek November 13, 2006	What Good Are Biofuels? Crops that double as energy sources are cheap, abundant, and homegrown. Yet as farmers rush to transform food crops into fuel, some environmentalists have begun to fret.
BusinessWeek November 13, 2006 Adrienne Carter	Planting the Seeds of a Biofuels Boom After one successful biofuel plant, Minnesota farmer Loren Forrest plans to build two more, one that uses cellulosic materials.
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