Topic: Fruit and Vegetable Farming
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Top 10 cities where house prices are rising
House prices continue to fall nationwide, but here and there they’ve begun to turn up as Americans return to the housing market. Which 10 metropolitan areas have seen the biggest increase in the past year? The winners, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), include a state capital, a furniture-making center, and a resort that was once America’s foreclosure capital. Can you guess who they are?
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Six major food recalls
Cargill has recalled roughly 36 million pounds of ground turkey products distributed nationwide. How does that compare with past food recalls?
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In Pictures: Urban gardens
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Heat wave: Four things that will rise with the temperatures
Slowing down because of rising heat is the expected response in any summer heat wave. But in a week like this one, where high temperatures fanned across the country, sizzling toward 100 degrees F. from Texas to Boston, some things also go up. Here are four things to expect to rise along with our desire to stay indoors and beat the heat.
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E. coli's economic impact on Europe, by the numbers
The European Union is planning to offer €150 million ($220 million) in aid to European farmers who have suffered huge financial losses because of last week’s E. coli outbreak. Is that enough to make up for their losses?
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Top 10 cities where house prices are rising
House prices continue to fall nationwide, but here and there they’ve begun to turn up as Americans return to the housing market. Which 10 metropolitan areas have seen the biggest increase in the past year? The winners, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), include a state capital, a furniture-making center, and a resort that was once America’s foreclosure capital. Can you guess who they are?
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The scold in Mother Nature's cold: It's winter! Wear a coat! (VIDEO)
Temperatures plummeted up and down Eastern US, making it feel, at last, like winter. But this brush with Arctic cold won't last long at all.
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The Circle Bastiat
Farms can't find pickers
In some areas, farm labor is so scarce that inmates in nearby penitentiaries are picking crops.
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Latin America Monitor
Heavy rains kill dozens in Central America
Floods, landslides, and collapsed infrastructure killed at least 66 as of Sunday, with heavy rain to continue through Wednesday. Blogger Tim Muth looks at how El Salvador, one of the worst hit Central American countries, prepared for the rain and the impact it could have on harvests.
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Despite listeria outbreak, cantaloupes safe to eat if…
Worst listeria outbreak in more than a decade shines harsh light on safety of cantaloupes. They're safe to eat, scientists say, if consumers take steps to prevent spread of pathogens like listeria.
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Six major food recalls
Cargill has recalled roughly 36 million pounds of ground turkey products distributed nationwide. How does that compare with past food recalls?
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In Pictures: Urban gardens
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Heat wave: Four things that will rise with the temperatures
Slowing down because of rising heat is the expected response in any summer heat wave. But in a week like this one, where high temperatures fanned across the country, sizzling toward 100 degrees F. from Texas to Boston, some things also go up. Here are four things to expect to rise along with our desire to stay indoors and beat the heat.
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Japanese astronaut to grow cucumbers in space
Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa plans to plant and grow cucumbers aboard the International Space Station to study how future space travelers can harvest their own food.
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E. coli's economic impact on Europe, by the numbers
The European Union is planning to offer €150 million ($220 million) in aid to European farmers who have suffered huge financial losses because of last week’s E. coli outbreak. Is that enough to make up for their losses?
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 06/06
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'Silent raids' and E-Verify immigration enforcement are destroying US farms
Enforcement-only immigration policies will further devastate immigrant communities, ravage labor-intensive agriculture, and take away countless jobs beyond the farm sector. If elected officials want US fruit and vegetable farms to survive, they need to implement smarter immigration reform.
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Deadly cucumbers not behind EU outbreak. So what is?
Deadly cucumbers from Spain are not cause of fatal E.coli outbreak, Germany concedes. But if not deadly cucumbers, then what? Officials don't know.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/20
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 04/19
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5 books about chucking it all for country living
This is the time of year – when it’s been freezing for two months and the city is covered with dirty snow that won’t melt for another six weeks – that I dream of trading it all in for a simpler life. You know, one complete with farm animals, caves for aging cheese, and a vegetable garden large enough to supply all of Manhattan with frisée. I'll never do it – I can't really live without groceries delivered to my apartment, mass transit, and access to Korean food at all hours – but I can at least read about it. Here are five amazing, hilarious, utterly charming books brought to you by people, crazier, more desperate, and with even less impulse control than I: the ones who actually did it.
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10 most intriguing tablets of 2011
After a decade of shaky starts, tablet computers have finally arrived. Unlike their bulky, expensive parents, this current generation of slates boasts trim frames, gorgeous screens, and power-house specs. So, here are the 10 most intriguing tablets of 2011, in order of screen size.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 02/03
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In Pictures: Baltimore's food czar addresses hunger and obesity
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In Pictures: Frozen forms
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In Pictures: Thanksgiving traditions
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 11/16
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/18
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/14
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In Pictures: Pumpkin patch
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