You just don't drop a fourth of your income without hardship. The organic dairy industry was thriving when Allen and Jean Moody bought an 80ha Wisconsin dairy farm in 2006 and joined the ranks of farmers churning out milk raised without growth hormones, pesticides or other chemicals. Three years later, the good days are gone and the Moodys aren't alone in wanting out.

A group of plant proteins that "shut the door" on bacteria that would otherwise infect the plant's leaves has been identified for the first time by a team of researchers in Denmark, at the University of California, Davis, and at UC Berkeley.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and Virginia Tech, has completed the genome of Azotobacter vinelandii, an important soil-living and nitrogen-fixing bacterium. The genome sequence is expected to advance research on A.

Serbia's National Parliament has adopted a new law that prohibits commercial growing of live modified organisms (GMOs), according to a new report by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. The new law, which regulates basic conditions for the use of GMOs in closed and open systems, also prohibits trading of products derived from GMOs.

Researchers at the University of Almeria in Spain are working to develop genetically modified castor oil plants with altered seed oil composition. The researchers, led by Federico García Maroto, have identified a series of genes and promoters that could increase the concentration of monounsaturated fatty acids, particularly oleic and palmitic acids, in castor oil seeds.

The mention of summer and tourism inevitably evokes the thought of ice cream. Once again, Test-Achats investigated the sale conditions and hygienic quality of ice cream cones and soft-serve in 69 points of sale, all while evaluating the hygienic conditions at the place of sale.

A group of 30 workers at Tan Duong Company in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Chanh District were hospitalized for food poisoning Saturday evening after eating tuna. This comes after the municipal Department of Health confirmed last week that spoiled tuna had been a major cause of the food poisoning suffered by nearly 500 workers in Ho Chi Minh City between June 11-13.

Antibiotic resistance is a major problem. Anyone that denies that is delusional. Anyone who thinks that antibiotic use in veterinary AND human medicine don't contribute to resistance are similarly clueless.

Words like "green", "organic" and "sustainable" are bandied about in New Zealand just as they are elsewhere in the world. Katherine Rich, chief executive of the Food & Grocery Council, which represents the country's $15 billion food industry, says the word "organic" is clearly defined in New Zealand.