Wild Oats Grows Stale
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There's yet another disappointment from organic foods' best-known ne'er-do-well.
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An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria.
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Crops damaged by recent wet weather are being left to rot because it is too wet to harvest them, farmers say.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today announced that Sudden Oak Decline, Phytophthora ramorum, has been confirmed from Rhododendrons sampled during routine testing in a Delaware County garden center.
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then watch them grow. (The Wildcat Chia pet would make a great holiday gift, too. Operators standing by!). They&#39;re not great right now.
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Recent earnings from the donut dominion look stale and crumbly.
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Supermarkets can't keep pomegranate juices in stock. Farmers can't grow the fruits fast enough. They are everywhere -- in shampoo, on lobster dinners, in beer, even on Christmas wreathes.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Stale doughnuts, lard,  honey-drenched dog food -- is this any kind of meal for a wild  Alaska bear?
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By Harward Esther  Neighbours of a Morrinsville mushroom plant who have complained about a bad smell for more than 10 years vented their frustration at an Environment Court hearing yesterday.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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Whole Foods Market Inc  on Thursday laid out plans to show longtime Wild Oats Markets Inc  shoppers that the acquisition criticized by U.S. regulators can lead to lower prices and improved stores.
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It looks like a clump of soiled sheep's wool, a cottony green or white mass that's turning up on rocks and river bottoms, snarling waterways. Already a scourge in New Zealand and parts of the American South and West, the aquatic algae called "rock snot" is creeping into New England, where it is turning up in pristine rivers and alarming fishermen and wildlife biologists.
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America&#039;s appetite for organic food is so strong that supply just can&#039;t keep up with demand. Organic products still have only a tiny slice, about 2.5 percent, of the nation&#039;s food market. But the slice is expanding at a feverish pace.
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The U.S. administrative proceeding  looking into the merger of organic grocers Wild Oats and Whole  Foods Markets Inc.  has not been stopped despite a loss  in district court, but Federal Trade Commission Chairman  Deborah Majoras said on Tuesday the FTC rarely presses on after  losing a court fight.
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Tyson Fresh Meats, a Wallula, Washington unit of Tyson Foods Inc., is voluntarily recalling about 16,743 pounds (7.6 tons) of ground beef that may be contaminated with E.coli, the USDA said on Friday.
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By LORNE JACKSON LET'S admit it, the UK has always had a reputation for flummoxed food. And it's all the fault of the West Midlands. At least, that's according to garden guru Jekka McVicar.
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Whole Foods Market Inc  said  on Monday it had bought smaller rival Wild Oats Markets Inc  , following months of delays as U.S. antitrust  authorities sought to block the $565 million deal.