NetQuantum :: Reference :: Almanacs :: Science :: Agriculture ::

• Read the label ... and then be very skeptical
Department of Agriculture regulates organic food. USDA specifies in great detail the rules producers must follow in order to call their products “Organic” or “USDA Organic.” Producers are certified and regularly inspected to make sure they ...
• Gas Station Owners Caught Tampering With Pumps
The attorney general's office and the state's Department of Agriculture Weights and Measures division is still investigating. "We know there are more stations taking advantage of unsuspecting customers.
• Close calls in Florida
They're probably areas of the state that found the rains very beneficial," said Terence McElroy, spokesman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
• Principal’s outing of gay student roils Fla. town
There is some agriculture, but most people are employed either by prisons or schools; some commute to the Gulf Coast to work in tourism. Ponce de Leon, with fewer than 500 residents, has a cafe, a post office and an antique store.
• As gas prices go down, so will food, right? No
"As long as we're in this world of expensive oil and commodities, the prices that you're seeing now in the grocery shelves are not going away," said Ephraim Leibtag, an economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture who tracks retail food prices ...