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with 10 resistant species in at least 22 states infesting millions of acres, predominantly soybeans, cotton and corn.

corn and cotton that are engineered to survive spraying with Roundup have become standard in American fields.

and 70 percent of the corn and cotton grown in the United states . But farmers sprayed so much Roundup that weeds quickly evolved to survive it. oewhat were talking about here is Darwinian evolution in fast-forward, Mike Owen,

More on Monsanto at Treehugger. comstudy Finds Monsantos GMO Corn Causes Organ Damage in Rodentsthe Fight Over the Future of Food:

and How to Feed the Worldmonsanto oeseedless Corn Sold To South african Farmersgermany Bans Planting of Monsanto GM Cornout, Monsanto!

However, take this story with a grain of salt at least two Newton biographers have done extensive research on the mans life that turned up no trace of a pet of any kind.

#Corn smut Revolting Fungus That Could Make You Younger and Healthier oethe devils corn This looks like an alien parasite,

but its actually a fungus that attacks corn. U s. farmers call it oecorn smut and have spent millions to eradicate it.

But its actually better for you than corn. A new study, released in the journal Food Chemistry reveal that corn smut, also called oethe devils corn,

actually contains valuable nutrients that arent found in the corn that it feeds off. In Mexico, the fungus is called huitlacoche,

and its already considered a delicacy. But U s. farmers and the U s. government, have spent millions of dollars to eradicate the blight

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One resident fed buckets of corns to the birds. oewe had complaints about property damage,

especially in curried rice, make his piss smell odd, but so far this claim has not been backed up by rigorous testing.

An Entire Branch of Science in Crisis The Climategate affair is grist for the mills of skeptics,

DNA can be extracted from cells of fish and meat and from other foods, such as rice and even coffee.

then move to the sections offering bulk grains (including rice), canned beans and tomatoes, milk, eggs and maybe a piece of meat or fish.

which is used a weed killer primarily on corn crops, could have potentially harmful effects on populations of amphibians,

writer Tamara Rice pieced together a new kind of workday for herself: three to five oemini-shifts lasting one-and-1/2 to three hours each.

For more than a year, Ms. Rice shuttled back and forth as many as 10 times a day between writing

Ms. Rice embodies a little-noticed effect of the recession: the incredible shrinking work shift. Cast off by mainstream employers

On another such site, odesk, where Ms. Rice works, workers have soared to 480,000. And on Fixya. com, experts offering product troubleshooting

In a year spent working mini-shifts, Ms. Rice, the California writer, says she hit many of these obstacles.

Although there are already plastics on the market made from natural materials like corn, these do not biodegrade quickly.

#Biofortification Will Become a Trend in the future Evan Ryan travelled the world looking at trace element nutrition in broadacre cropping A Yarrawonga farmer believes oebiofortification of grain with trace elements will become a trend in the future.

if consumer demand pushed food companies to pay for grain fortified with trace elements, it would be oegood for farmers and good for consumers.

He will speak on crop trace elements at the grain farmer research update in Corowa next week run by Riverine Plains Inc and the Grains Research and development Corporation.

Shortages in basic commodities such as rice imported milk, butter and flour hit the country down to the poor.

U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute have announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass that will enable researchers to shed light on the genetics behind hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties

including wheat and barley. The research also supports the USDA priority of developing new sources of bioenergy;

In another effort, by comparing the genomes of soybean and corn, a single-base pair mutation was found that causes a reduction in phytate production in soybean.

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or freeze dryed) 60 grams malt vinegar powder 25 grams salt Spices to taste (onion powder, garlic powder, etc) 60 grams mycryo (to temper) At the link,

The main reason for the shortage is that the cost of organic grain and hay to feed cows has gone up sharply

and grain fed to cattle, which is partly because of increasing demand for corn for ethanol.

It said that to make organic dairy farms profitable, processors would have to increase the amount paid to farmers by $5 for every 100 pounds of milk.

or feed them expensive organically grown grain and hay. Mr. Azevedo said that cows on organic farms typically produce much less milk than cows on conventional farms.

Wild turkeys have a gene that makes them resistant to a type of toxic fungus sometimes found in corn and soybeans.

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#Grains of rice genetically modified to produce human blood Blood protein from genetically modified rice could ease demand for blood donations.

Genetically modified grains of rice produce a key component of human blood in an attempt to provide an alternative to donations.

The protein, extracted from rice plants containing human genes, could be used in hospitals to treat burns victims

By growing the genetically modified rice in fields, the researchers claim Human Serum albumin could be produced mass for use in hospitals,

The use of a rice seed bioreactor could provide an economical and safe approach for the production of non-animal derived compounds.#

#Dr Yang and his colleagues have developed a technique for inserting human genes into Asian rice using bacteria,

Over successive generations they were able to increase the amount of Human Serum albumin produced in the rice grains until it accounted for 10 per cent of the soluble protein produced in the rice seeds.

The latest work to introduce human genes into rice is likely to inflame opposition to GM technology further amid fears over the safety of genetically modified crops

however, that the protein produced by the genetically modified rice was identical to Human Serum albumin found naturally in Blood tests on rats also showed it did not produce any adverse reactions.

Dr Yang is also hoping to use genetically modified rice plants to produce other proteins found in human blood,

The team are also working on a strain of genetically modified rice that produces proteins that are similar to insulin for use in treating diabetes.

ranging from calcium-enriched orange juice to fortified sugary cereals and milk with added omega 3 fatty acids.

#The roots of perennial wheat Is this be the future of wheat? This is not the best photo,

What you see here is Jerry Glover, National geographic Emerging Explorer, holding the root system of a single perennial wheat plant.

since large-scale corn farming replaced perennial prairie, Iowa has lost some 8 vertical inches of precious topsoil.

It will hold string popcorn and cranberries too! Yuleahoop is a revolutionary new way to decorate your tree.

or a wheat molecules. We have other types of molecules that make up plants and animals,

adding many types of cereal, bread and beverages are fortified with added vitamins. The study was funded partly by the National Cancer Institute and the Academy of Finland,

#The U s. now uses more corn for fuel than feed! Using corn as fuel is Madness!

And not The british band#The corn ethanol supporters are probably not very familiar with the concept of opportunity cost.

Either that, or the subsidies and high corn prices are just to juicy to give up.

Only about 20%of all the corn grown in the U s. now goes to feed humans directly,

and more than half of what remains is now being turned into ethanol fuel while the other half goes to feed livestock.

The problem is that life-cycle studies show that corn ethanol ranges from barely better than fossil-fuel gasoline to significantly worse

Many would agree that corn ethanol is a net loss for society, yet this industry keeps growing#Scientific American writes:

Over the past year, U s. farmers used 5 billion bushels of corn for animal feed and residual demand.

During the time timeframe, the nation used more than 5. 05 billion bushels of corn to fill its gas tanks.

And, while some of the corn used to produce these biofuels will be returned to the food supply (as animal feed and corn oil),

a large proportion of this corn will be dedicated solely to our gas tanks. When something doesn t make sense,

the better The important thing to understand is that this isn t just about corn and corn prices.

and if a lot of it is used for corn, that means less of it for other things,

meaning that there s an increase not only in corn prices, but in the price of everything else that could be grown on that land.

The corn ethanol industry will want a certain amount of corn each year as long as they have subsidies and expensive fixed costs.

In the past, all the land that is used to make corn for ethanol would have been available to absorb the shock,

Growing up on a grain farm in the little town of Mobridge, SD is an experience

of rice. These smart dust#particles, as he called them, could be used to monitor everything.

whether corn sells for $3 per bushel or $7, #Veatch said. With Iowa weather, there are only narrow windows for planting and harvesting.

I was sure proud of how quickly the farmers in Iowa were able to get the corn crop planted this spring,

and we got almost 70%of the corn in that week.##Then he laughed and said:

Rice, still a significant staple, has not been planted in many areas. Others face stringent tests and potentially harmful shipping bans after radioactive cesium was found in rice straw.

Excessive radiation levels have also been found in beef vegetables, milk, seafood and water and, in hot spots more than 100 km from the plant, tea.

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One of our signature dishes is corn bread with honey butter. Well use it in that and maybe in marinades or maybe a cocktail.

which has expanded also by acquiring companies such as The Popcorn Factory and Fannie May, reported almost $668 million in total revenue in fiscal year 2010.

Their idea is not to grow foods that require much space, like corn or potatoes.

and Kellogs Corn Pops. Each year, 24/7 Wall st. regularly compiles a list of brands that are going to disappear in the near-term.

and VAIO PCS. 7. Kelloggs Corn Pops The cereal business is not what is used to be, at least for products that are considered not healthy.#

#Among those is Kelloggs Corn Pops ready-to-eat cereal. Sales of the brand dropped 18%over the year that ended in April, down to $74 million.

Private label sales have also hurt sales of branded cereals. Revenues in this category were $637 million over the same April-end period.

There is also profit margin pressure on Corn Pops because of the sharp increase in corn prices. Kelloggs describes the product as being glazed Crispy

#Corn Pops also contain mono-and diglycerides, used to bind saturated fat, and BHT for freshness,

and subject them to an unnatural diet of genetically-modified (GM) corn and soybeans. A recent report in the UKS Guardian explains that researchers there hope to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing fake meat in a lab

Students here come in a close second behind Boston in reading and math scores. 5. Des moines, IA Iowa isnt just corn and politics.

In China, early farmers relied on cereals such as buckwheat, rice and maize, all of which lack niacin, A b vitamin vital for growth.

$10. 56 Kilogram of rice: $9. 80 Dozen eggs: $4. 50 Movie theater ticket: $23. 80 Although the consumer price index in the Tokyo area has been falling since 2009, according to data from Japans statistics bureau,

$13. 18 Kilogram of rice: $6. 10 Dozen eggs: $8. 50 Movie theater ticket: $18. 80 Norways capital is a major hub for trade, shipping,

$11. 37 Kilogram of rice: $8. 50 Dozen eggs: $3. 60 Movie theater ticket: $21. 80 Nagoya is one of Japans premier industrial and technological centers

$12. 83 Kilogram of rice: $5. 70 Dozen eggs: $6. 80 Movie theater ticket: $17. 30 Stavanger was mainly a fishing community until oil was found in the North sea in the 1960s,

$6. 59 Kilogram of rice: $4. 20 Dozen eggs: $2. 50 Movie theater ticket: $21. 70 Japans second-largest city after Tokyo, Yokohama is reached easily from Tokyo by train.

$10. 54 Kilogram of rice: $3. 70 Dozen eggs: $7. 90 Movie theater ticket: $19. 60 The financial sector is an important part of Zurichs economy

$6. 62 Kilogram of rice: $4. 60 Dozen eggs: $5. 20 Movie theater ticket: $13. 90 Luanda was the most expensive city in the world in ECA Internationals 2009 ranking.

$9. 12 Kilogram of rice: $4. 70 Dozen eggs: $8. 60 Movie theater ticket: $19. 20 Truly a global city, Geneva is home to such international organizations as the United nations

$8. 69 Kilogram of rice: $9. 30 Dozen eggs: $3. 10 Movie theater ticket: $20. 80 Kobe is one of Japans busiest ports and a manufacturing center for appliances, food,

$7. 46 Kilogram of rice: $4. 70 Dozen eggs: $8. 40 Movie theater ticket: $19. 10 Switzerlands capital, Bern is the center of Swiss government, the engineering industry,

and the other planets#This particular grain is known affectionately as Cracked Egg#for its distinctive appearance.

Jr. and student Stuart A. Sweeney Smith at the City university of New york (CUNY) and the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) first recognized the grain to be of a very special type, known as a calcium-aluminum

showed the main component of the grain was a low-pressure calcium aluminum oxide (Caal2o4) never before found in nature.

What insight can we get from knowing that a common human-made component of modern concrete is found in nature only as a very rare component of a grain formed more than 4. 5 billion years ago?

. and other major corn syrup processors as well as the Corn Refiners Association.##So, is it fair to call HFCS sugar?

#Corn Refiners Petition to Be called Corn sugar I wrote in March that the Corn Refiners Association had asked the FDA to change the name HFCS to corn sugar.

The Corn Refiners Association lobbied hard for the name change because more and more people are refusing to buy products containing HFCS.

As a result, many food manufacturers have stopped using HFCS and, instead, have replaced it with sugar. The sky rocketing price of corn,

which has shot up nearly 50 percent in the past couple of months, has also been a factor.

The Corn Refiners have petitioned just the FDA to be allowed to use the name corn sugar#to apply to both glucose/dextrose and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS.

and its manufacture from corn starch requires one more enzyme. Heres the FDA regulation. But even still, HFCS has been using the name in its new advertising push,

Corn Refiners spent nearly $30 million on advertising in 2008. But how different are HFCS and sugar?

The process starts off with corn kernels. The corn is spun at a high velocity and combined with three other enzymes:

alpha-amylase, glucoamylase, and xylose isomerase, so that it forms a thick syrup thats way sweeter than sugar.

T he boom in new speculative opportunities in global grain, edible oil, and livestock markets has created a vicious cycle.

For him, the rising price of grain should have been a windfall, but speculation has created also spikes in everything the farmer must buy to grow his grain#from seed to fertilizer to diesel fuel.

At the very bottom lies the consumer. The average American, who spends roughly 8 to 12 percent of her weekly paycheck on food

The result of Wall streets venture into grain and feed and livestock has been a shock to the global food production and delivery system.

Not only does the worlds food supply have to contend with constricted supply and increased demand for real grain,

but investment bankers have engineered an artificial upward pull on the price of grain futures. The result:

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and added whole grains in many cereals. Scott Faber, a vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a group that represents food makers,

The sugar requirement would limit cereals to eight grams of added sugar a serving, far less than many popular cereals have today.

Froot Loops and Capn Crunch, for example, contain 12 grams of sugar a serving. The salt restrictions are particularly stringent,

And most recently, according to a story on Grist, the USDA is starting a new program which will outsource environmental impact statements on biotech crops to the GMO industry.

According to Grist, Judge White warned that environmental impact statements on crops were being conducted too fast,

wheat and oil, both of which have seen huge global price increases. The state is the countrys#1 producer of durum wheat#thats

#and is also a major grower of other crops including barley, pinto beans, and flaxseed. The state also currently accounts for 2 percent of domestic oil production.

Crops such as sweet corn, apples, pears, grapes, berries, peaches, tomatoes and peppers appear to be the most vulnerable.

Another relatively new industrial injury is#Popcorn lungs, or bronchiolitis obliterans, which can strike employees working in popcorn factories.

Some popcorn flavouring contains diacetyl, a chemical used to produce the butter-like taste. Over-exposure can cause lung damage.

Miss Jackson said: There was a recent action in America that resulted in workers in a popcorn factory making a claim against their employers

because they werent given the proper safety equipment, including masks when making popcorn. Employers need to be more aware of

what they are exposing their employers to, and popcorn lung is an example of new types of industrial disease actions.

We are also anticipating more actions against hairdressers. A recent study by the Health And Safety Executive reported that up to 70 per cent of hairdressers suffer from work-related skin damage, such as dermatitis

#Whatâ##s In Movie theater Popcorns? Popcorn is just one of the expenses of a movie.

What makes movie popcorn so gosh darned expensive? Whats in that strange yellow liquid they call butter anyhow?

And while were at it #what are in those popcorns anyhow? Well, its all a secret and theater owners are fighting the FDA to keep it that way#Alarmed at the prospect,

representatives of the National Assn. of Theatre Owners have been lobbying the FDA and congressional staff members in recent weeks to exempt theaters from the nutritional labeling requirement.

as they generate up to one-third of their revenue from selling popcorn, sodas and other snacks.

Popcorn is especially profitable. As David Ownby, the chief financial officer of Regal Entertainment Group, the nations largest theater circuit, recently said at an investor presentation,

We sell a bucket of popcorn for about $6. Our cost in that $6 bucket of popcorn is about 15 cents or 20 cents.

So if that cost doubles, it doesnt really hurt me that much.##$0. 20 to $6?

The bottle is made from switch grass, pine bark, corn husks and other materials. Ultimately, Pepsi plans to also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business.

The new bottle looks, feels and protects the drink inside exactly the same as its current bottles,

and it appears likely that they will climb further in the months ahead#As a result of an extraordinarily tight grain situation,

Last year, the world produced 2, 180 million tons of grain. It consumed 2, 240 million tons,

we focus on the big three grains#rice, wheat, and corn#that together account for nearly 90 percent of the harvest.

Barley, oats, sorghum, rye, and millet make up the remainder. We start by looking at rice because,

as an irrigated crop, its production fluctuates little. The average annual gain in the world rice harvest,

which totaled 452 million tons last year, has been 7 million tons. Lets assume that we get a 10 million ton gain in rice this year.

Wheat, now the worlds leading food grain, is much more difficult to assess because so much of the harvest is rain-fed,

making yields as variable as the rainfall. But since most wheat is winter wheat, which is planted in the fall,

is dormant in winter, and resumes growth in early spring, we know that this year the wheat area planted is up by 3 percent.

We also have an early sense of the crops condition. We begin with the big four wheat producers#China

India, the United states, and Russia#which collectively produce half the worlds wheat. China, the leading wheat producer, was until very recently suffering the worst drought in its winter wheat-growing region in 60 years.

Although rain and snow in late February and early March rains and snow have lessened the drought effect,

we could easily see Chinas wheat harvest drop from 115 million tons last year to 110 million tons this year.

India officially expects an 82-million-ton harvest, up 1 million tons from last year.

In the United states#the third ranking wheat producer#the southern Great plains are suffering from drought.

As of the end of February the U s. winter wheat crop condition was among the worst in the last 20 years.

The U s. Department of agriculture estimates the harvest will drop from 60 million tons to 56 million,

and this may be conservative. Russias wheat harvest should be up sharply from last years heat-devastated crop of 42 million tons.

But last fall it was too dry to plant one fifth of its winter wheat,

which means many more farmers will plant lower-yielding spring wheat#wheat that is planted in the spring

and is harvested in the late summer or early fall. With a little luck Russia should harvest roughly 58 million tons of wheat.

Adding in the rest of the worlds expected wheat production, can we match last years world wheat harvest figure of 645 million tons?

We should exceed it. The International Grains Council estimates this years harvest at 672 million tons, up by 27 million tons over 2010.

This contrasts with the Canadian Wheat Board estimate of 653 million tons, a gain of only 8 million tons.

For calculation purposes, let us assume that this years wheat harvest is up by 20 million tons for a total of 665 million tons.

Now for corn. Two countries tell the story here: the United states and China, which produce 40 and 20 percent, respectively, of the 814-million-ton world corn harvest.

Combining the expected 4 percent increase in U s. planted area with a 10-ton-per-hectare yield, the U s. corn harvest could increase by 25 million tons.

Chinas corn harvest, which has fluctuated around 165 million tons for the last three years, is not likely to increase given its tight water situation.

For the remaining 40 percent of the corn harvest, we will assume a gain of 15 million tons.

All together this takes the world harvest up by 40 million tons. Lets review the global numbers.

It will take 100 million tons of additional grain just to maintain the current precarious situation

and close to 150 million tons to restore some semblance of stability in the world grain market.

We can count on a 10-million-ton increase in this years rice harvest. We are hoping for a 20-million-ton rise with wheat and a 40-million-ton jump in corn.

Let us also assume that minor cereals increase by 10 million tons over last year.

This would give us a total increase of 80 million tons, not enough to prevent further price rises.

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#Canned Cow Farts Prove Big Hit in Germany A gassy success. Stall Duft is a small can filled with the smell of an old wooden stable full of gas-producing cows.

#A more accurate description than 100%natural whole-grain oats,#plump raisins,#sweet cranberries#and crisp fresh apples#would be sweetened oats,

but because they can act as a kind of glue#that holds more difficult food like rice

but many of you noted that eating cereal in a cup, or even in a recycled water bottle,

and are treated sometimes to popcorn or peanuts. Gummy bears were abandoned because they stuck to the monkeys teeth.

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