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Still Not Enough Treatment in the Heart of the Opioid Crisis
Pew Trusts | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Rural NewsThis city, where the rate of drug overdose deaths is nearly 10 times the national average, has done more than most to fight the heroin and prescription painkiller epidemic. Local police have been diverting drug users to specialized drug courts for treatment. The city opened a syringe exchange program to reduce the spread of infectious diseases among drug users.
Some insurers thwart efforts to use medication treatment for addiction
USA Today | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Rural NewsKrista Sizemore's brain was crying out for heroin. But she knew she was pregnant. She knew her baby needed her to stay safe. She knew what could happen if she used again. She thought she'd been through it all, even overdosing once in her father's home. Sizemore, 26, called her mother, Kimberly Wright. "I knew I wasn't going to stop without help," Sizemore said.
What Is Raw Milk? Health Officials Issue Warning After At Least 20 People Sickened
Medical Daily | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Food NewsFor as tasty a reputation as it may have, raw milk may equally be the bane of public health officials everywhere. Over the weekend, local and state Colorado health officials jointly announced that an outbreak of the foodborne illness campylobacteriosis had so far affected 20 people.
Organic and conventional farmers lambaste non-GMO milk label
Genetic Literacy Project | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Food NewsThere’s a new food category that is gaining popularity with shoppers, but that’s also becoming an enemy of farmers — both of the conventional and organic persuasion. The Chronicle reported that Clover Stornetta Farms of Petaluma would be adding non-GMO certification to its conventional milk in early 2017, meaning it would require dairy farmers use GMO-free feed with its conventional herds. Milk is not genetically engineered, and neither are dairy cows. Most conventional milk comes from cows given supplemental feed from genetically engineered corn and soy.
Scenes from New Englands Drought
NYTimes.com | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in NewsThe low river is one of countless signs of dry weather that has settled over much of New England. Conditions are even worse south of the Saco, with the US Drought Monitor observing "extreme drought" conditions in much of the eastern half of Massachusetts, southeastern New Hampshire and the southern parts of Maine.
Don’t kiss your chickens!
Meatingplace (registration required) | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Agriculture NewsI was stunned to see the headline on ABC Eyewitness news website “Feds warn people to stop kissing chickens or they'll risk illness.” Silly me, I thought that would be obvious, but then today kissing pets seems to be a generally accepted behavior. And chickens are becoming a common pet and not just in the backyard. I follow an organization of people with backyard chickens and am continually amazed at the posts regarding the chickens in the family home.
Food Habits of Recolonizing Cougars in the Dakotas: Prey Obtained from Prairie and Agricultural Habitats
South Dakota State University | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Rural NewsFood habits of cougars (Puma concolor) in North America have been documented for western populations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Most studies assessed diets of cougars occupying typical habitats, and within established populations. We evaluated food habits of cougars in prairie and agricultural landscapes in the Dakotas (regions that had been devoid of the species for roughly a century) located well outside of known resident populations.
USDA Approves Nonregulated Status For ‘Arctic Fuji’
Growing Produce | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in NewsDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announces an extension of deregulation to a line of genetically engineered (GE) apple known as ‘Arctic Fuji.’ This GE ‘Fuji’ apple was developed by Okanagan Specialty Fruits, Inc.
DuPont Pioneer Commits $175,000 to Food and Agricultural Education Grants
Hoosier Ag Today | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Agriculture NewsDuPont Pioneer and the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) announced that Pioneer will award $175,000 in grants to agriscience educators to fund training and classroom resources that will help them implement advanced agriculture curriculum. Grant recipients are teachers who are implementing Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE) in their classrooms. CASE is a multi-year approach to agriscience education with rigorous educator training requirements and hands-on, inquiry focused learning activities.
FarmStart Program Approves 175th Investment to Support Beginning Farmers
Farm Credit East | Posted onSeptember 28, 2016 in Agriculture NewsFarmStart, an innovative Northeast program to help young people get started in farming, is pleased to announce the approval of its 175th investment. Since the first investment approved in August of 2006, FarmStart has invested more than $7.5 million with 175 participants throughout New York, New Jersey and New England. The program’s 175th investment was to Brookby Dairy, LLC in Dover Plains, N.Y. Owner William Vincent comes from a sixth generation family farm, and after graduating from college returned home to take over the farm which had been inactive for close to 30 years.