Vegetable prices seen going up [ Philippine Star via Yahoo! Philippines News ] May 20, 2008  Vegetable prices may go up as a result of the damage wrought by typhoon Cosme. Read More ...

Organic farms take root in similkameen [ Vancouver Sun ] May 20, 2008  FEAST OR FAMINE -- SATURDAY, MAY 17 Read More ...

As economy stumbles, gardeners turn to y [ USA Today ] May 20, 2008  High prices at the pump and the produce aisle have sent home gardeners into their yards with a mission: Grow-it-yourself dining. Sales of vegetable seeds, tomato transplants and fruit trees are soaring as enterprising planters grow their own food. Read More ...

Reaching Well Beyond the Farm [ NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance ] May 20, 2008  Few pieces of legislation generate the level of public scorn heaped upon the farm bill, but few pieces of major legislation get such overwhelming bipartisan support. Read More ...

The new wave of farming [ Lawrence Journal-World ] May 19, 2008  A decade ago Jeff Meyer decided to give up his family's century-old tradition of dairy farming. Read More ...

Fanciful fennel Always fresh and full of [ The Wilmington Star-News ] May 20, 2008  If efficiency were a vegetable, it might be fennel. The plant grows from the ground up with a useful agenda. Read More ...

Farming threatens three important Philip [ AFP via Yahoo! Malaysia News ] May 19, 2008  Three of the most important rivers in the Philippines are at risk from water depletion due to illegal conversion of their common watershed into cabbage farms, officials said Monday. Read More ...

Let the planting begin [ Rapid City Journal ] May 21, 2008  Using a philosophy similar to farming, a city greenhouse specialist has created more than 200 different designs for the 250 flower beds in a dozen different parks in Rapid City. Tim Forster and his garden staff of Nancy Wold, Jason Solano and Cheryl Greytak have been preparing for this stage of the summer's growing season since January. Now all that's left is the planting. Read More ...

U.S. farm bill reaches well beyond the f [ International Herald Tribune ] May 20, 2008  The 673-page bill touches on so many other issues of enormous importance to lawmakers and their constituents, rural and urban alike, that many say it is no longer accurate to call it the 'farm bill.' Read More ...

Wyclef rallies for Haiti aid [ New York Daily News ] May 21, 2008  Haitan-born hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean is reaching a helping hand out to his homeland - and he hopes you will too. Read More ...

www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to K [  ] your gateway, 2008  A farm shop and vegetable box company has confirmed it is to take over Yalding Organic Gardens. The Langley-based Maro Foods company hopes to transform the gardens into a centre of excellence for organic food production. Read More ...

Oranges out, veggies in at former Scripp [ The Palm Beach Post ] May 20, 2008  It was planned to be home to The Scripps Research Institute, but vegetables may be the only thing rising on a portion of the embattled Mecca Farms property - at least for the next few years. Read More ...

Early birds might not always get the wor [ The Charlotte Observer ] May 20, 2008  Psst - hey, buddy. Got a dozen eggs? Sell them to me under the table, and I'll throw in an extra 50 cents and my own egg carton. Has it come to this? With all the demand out there to buy what's coming from local farms, I'm expecting our local farmers markets to schedule Saturday morning arm-wrestling tournaments. Winner gets first crack at the broccoli. One of my friends was lamenting ... Read More ...

To survive, farmers trade do's and don't [ Everett Herald ] May 20, 2008  County farmers share their knowledge through tours conducted with help from WSU's Small Farms Team and Tilth Producers. Read More ...

Plans to up countryside charm in two are [ Straits Times ] May 21, 2008  FANS of the lush farms in Lim Chu Kang and the serenity of Kranji's Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve can look forward to more outdoor activities in Singapore's small slice of countryside. Read More ...

A wave of green thumbs [ The Myrtle Beach Sun News ] May 20, 2008  High prices at the pump and the produce aisle have sent home gardeners into their yards with a mission: Grow-it-yourself dining. Sales of vegetable seeds, tomato transplants and fruit trees are soaring as enterprising planters grow their own food. W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the nation's largest seed company, has sold twice as many seeds this year as it did last year, with half the increase from new ... Read More ...

China says quake killed 12.5 million far [ The New Zealand Herald ] May 19, 2008  BEIJING - China says the devastating earthquake killed 12.5 million farm animals and wrecked vegetable crops and irrigation systems needed to grow rice. Read More ...

NW lawmakers split on farm bill [ AG Weekly ] May 21, 2008  WASHINGTON - Northwest lawmakers were split Wednesday as the House passed a $290 billion farm bill that offers more subsidies for farmers and food stamps for the poor and $170 million for the disaster-plagued Pacific Coast salmon fishing industry. Read More ...