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Farmers told to adapt to climate change

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ABC, By: Cath McAloon, 11/14/2013

The latest world weather report, indicating the globe is on track to record one of its warmest years, should send a strong message to farmers to plan for climate adaptation, according to an expert in agriculture and climate change. The United Nation's World Meteorological Organisation is reporting 2013 is expected to rank among the top ten warmest years since modern weather records began in 1850. Blair Trewin, a climatologist with the Bureau of Meteorology says record hot temperatures in Australia have significantly contributed to the overall result.

 

"Australia was probably the most exceptional part of the world this year," Dr Trewin said. "The year so far in Australia has been the warmest on record by a fairly substantial margin. Up to the end of October we were running 0.24 of a degree ahead of the previous record year, which means that unless November and December are significantly cooler, 2013 will be Australia's warmest year on record."

 

For more on this story visit www.weatherzone.com.au

FDA Food Safety Rules Threaten to Crush the Good Food Movement

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By: Cornucopia.org, 09/19/2013

After years of deliberation in Congress, interagency meetings, lobbyist activity, and a never-ending stream of food poisoning outbreaks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finally poised to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

 

However, according to a just released white paper by The Cornucopia Institute, the FDA’s draft rules are so off the mark that they might economically crush the country’s safest farmers while ignoring the root threats to human health:  manure contaminated with deadly infectious pathogens generated on “factory” livestock farms and high-risk produce-processing practices.

 

For more on this story visit http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/09/fda-food-safety-rules-threaten-crush-good-food-movement/

Landmark Decision: American Farmers Attain Critical Legal Protection

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By: Realfarmacy.com, 08/08/2013

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“We are lead Plaintiff in OSGATA et al v. Monsanto, a landmark federal lawsuit filed in March 2011 which challenges the validity of Monsanto’s transgenic seed patents and seeks Court protection for family farmers who through no fault of their own may become contaminated by Monsanto’s patented seed technology and then – perversely – be accused of patent infringement.”

 

Justice Begins with Seeds: A letter from organic farmer Jim Gerritsen

Dear Friends Attending the Justice Begins with Seeds Conference,

The demands of our farming in Maine prevent me from being with you today. We do join you in the belief that justice is necessary for lasting change, most especially as it relates to seed. We make our living growing organic seed. We have been farming organically on our Wood Prairie Farm in Maine for 37 years. We live and follow the belief that everyone in the organic community has an obligation to help grow and protect our community.

 

5 Million Farmers Locked In Lawsuit Against Monsanto

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By: Freedomoutpost.com, 06/22/2013

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The US-based biotech giant Monsanto is locked in a lawsuit with five million Brazilian farmers, suing for as much as 7.7 billion US dollars (6.2 billion euros). Anthony Gucciardi points out that research indicates that Monsanto is responsible for farmer suicides at a rate of one every 30 minutes. However, just like those farming regions that became known as the “suicide belt,” this lawsuit against Monsanto is due to the company reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous royalty charges.

 

For more on this story visit www.thedailysheeple.com

Genetically engineered sugar beets destroyed in southern Oregon

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The Oregonian, By: Kimberly A.C. Wilson, 06/20/2013

 

Federal investigators are asking the public to help solve middle-of-the-night crimes that left ruined fields of genetically engineered sugar beets in rural Jackson County. The crop destruction took place over the course of two separate nights in early June, when an unknown individual or group destroyed about 6,500 sugar beet plants genetically engineered to stand up to the herbicide Roundup on a pair of privately-owned plots of land leased and managed by Syngenta.

 

For more on this story visit www.oregonlive.com

Appeals Court Binds Monsanto to Promise Not to Sue Organic Farmers

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By: Ecowatch.com, 06/11/2013

A three-judge panel at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday that a group of organic and otherwise non-genetically modified organism (GMO) farmer and seed company plaintiffs are not entitled to bring a lawsuit to protect themselves from Monsanto‘s transgenic seed patents “because Monsanto has made binding assurances that it will not ‘take legal action against growers whose crops might inadvertently contain traces of Monsanto biotech genes (because, for example, some transgenic seed or pollen blew onto the grower’s land).’”

 

In the ruling issued yesterday in the case Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) et al. v. Monsanto, the Court of Appeals judges affirmed the Southern District of New York’s previous decision that the plaintiffs did not present a sufficient controversy to warrant adjudication by the courts. However, it did so only because Monsanto made repeated commitments during the lawsuit to not sue farmers with “trace amounts” of contamination of crops containing their patented genes.

 

Farmed & Dangerous: Dairy demos vs corporate herd

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Farmed & Dangerous: Dairy demos vs corporate herd

Published on Jul 23, 2012 by RussiaToday

Europe's dairy farmers are feeling the squeeze - they say big business is forcing milk prices down to below the cost of production. And they say they're getting nowhere with their EU MPs, who they accuse of following the corporate herd. RT's Tesa Arcilla has more.

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