How do you stop a chicken from eating its friends? A Purdue University scientist has devised a breeding method to produce peaceful birds, which may reduce barnyard cannibalism. Using William Muir’s method, he tells the Associated Press, hens could live longer because they’d spend less time fighting. White leghorn hens, which lay most of the eggs consumed in [...]
The meeting comes as federal investigators and the offices of the U.S.attorney in at least four states continue to hone in on packing companies, honey brokers and importers allegedly involved in facilitating or purchasing intentionally mislabeled or bogus honey. The crime, which some major suppliers say may involve 50 percent or more of all imported honey, [...]
How will new mandates affect farmers and farm workers? Seventy percent of agricultural workers in California are uninsured. The new health care law will benefit many of those workers through an expanded Medi-Cal program and government subsidies to buy private health insurance. Read the full article at NPR
