Swift Opens Beef Plant to Public
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 27--Residents are invited to tour Swift & Co.'s Greeley beef production facility in person.   The open house from 1-3 p.m. Sunday will give residents an opportunity to learn more about the company and the plant.
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By Rachel Melcer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Dec. 15--The parking lots, rusted tanks and idle equipment of a  century-old Sauget chemical plant will be transformed into a haven for biofuel  production, say officials at Solutia Inc., its owner.
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By Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 28--A new agribusiness page tops the list of enhancements Wednesday to the Tulsa World Business section.   Every week, the agribusiness page will offer news and information on crops, cattle, growing conditions and other farm topics.
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Leaders of Minnesota&#39;s beef industry are assuring the public that the meat supply is safe after federal officials announced that a second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States.
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With the government set to allow food from cloned animals onto the market Â and consumers not yet convinced it's safe Â meat and dairy producers are promoting an industry-led system to track cloned livestock.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s largest food-processing company, Moy Park Ltd., pledged Thursday to discover how a potentially cancer-causing drug ended up in up to 23 tonnes of its free-range chickens.
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By George G. Landis, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Sep. 10--This year's final grazing walk will take place Sept. 21 starting at 6 p.m. at Pastures Pride-Natural Meats Farm in Richmond Township.  David and Joy Stutzman, owners, started grazing in 1998 with 10 acres.
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A DAIRY beef integration seminar will be held at Wendonside this month focusing on increasing profits by using beef genetics over dairy herds.
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A trade show exhibiting chocolate in all its forms opened to the public in Paris, packed with vendors from around the world and crowds looking to take their sweet-tooth addiction to new heights.
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Ireland has suffered its first homegrown case of the human form of mad cow disease, the government confirmed Wednesday. Health Minister Mary Harney sent a message of sympathy to the
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The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting fears that biomedically potent substances in high-tech plants could escape and turn up in other foods.
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The UK government is stepping up efforts to stimulate the growing of crops for use in generating renewable energy.
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An earthy abundance from local farms comes through the loading docks of the Culinary Institute of America: sprigs of asparagus in the spring, peas and beets in the summer, apples and squash in the fall. The food &#151; much of it taken from the soil the day before &#151; provides fresh fodder from the Hudson Valley for the riverside school's five restaurants and classroom kitchens.
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The grass, native to the U.S., gets high marks for energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions in Department of Agriculture test.
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Life & style: Ten years ago, Conor Jameson planted a hedge, a long row of thin, bare stems, not much to see. This spring, he returned to savour the fruits of his labour - and found a thriving corridor of life.
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US farmers given go-ahead to produce cloned meat for human food chain
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By Monique Curet, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 10--Sylvia Zimmerman is unabashedly fond of her dairy cows, singing out, "Hi, girls, hi, girls," to the animals as she motors past them in a cart.  "A cow is such a marvelous creature," says Zimmerman, who farms in Delaware County.