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Millions Use Well Water, but Very Few Test It Often Enough to Make Sure It’s Safe
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (THE CONVERSATION) — About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source. These homeowners are entirely responsible for ensuring that the water from their wells is safe for human consumption. Multiple studies show that, at best, half of private well owners are testing with any frequency, and very few households test…
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Pumpkin: An ancient vegetable still in vogue today
COLUMBIA, Mo. – This fall, millions of Americans will purchase a vegetable they, unfortunately, are very unlikely to eat, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. In the United States, this colorful member of the gourd plant family is used primarily for decoration, but many people throughout the world use pumpkin as a staple…
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Interest in Plant-Based Products is Cooling Off
Plant-based products started quickly in the grocery sector a few years ago. However, Supermarket News says that the market is beginning to settle and evolve. The plant-based meat sector, a hot topic a few years ago, is currently experiencing growing pains. Fresh meat alternatives had volume sales of 36.9 million pounds for the 52 weeks…
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From Fields of Wheat to Plates of Pasta
MANDAN, N.D. — The North Dakota Wheat Commission is celebrating National Pasta Month in October as a way to recognize the state’s durum producers, mills and pasta manufacturers and the role they play in putting pasta on the plates of consumers. Each year, a new theme is developed to celebrate the occasion. This year’s theme…
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National 4-H Week
Commentary. “I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living, for my club, my community, my country, and my world.” During National 4-H Week, we celebrate a program that is near and dear to many of us in rural communities. I…
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Caffeine: Heart-Healthy Habit?
OXFORD, U.K. — A new paper in Rheumatology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that consuming more caffeine may improve heart health. Vascular disease, damage of blood vessels, and their resulting consequences, heart attack and stroke, are among the leading causes of death in the general population. In patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, such as lupus…
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Ohio Farmer’s Six-Figure Side Hustle Earns More Than Her Goat Dairy
Ohio Farmer’s Six-Figure Side Hustle Earns More Than Her Goat Dairy Agweb Powered by Farm Journal
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Plant Compound Used in Traditional Medicine May Help Fight Tuberculosis
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A compound found in African wormwood — a plant used medicinally for thousands of years to treat many types of illness — could be effective against tuberculosis, according to a new study that is available online and will be published in the October edition of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. The team, co-led…
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Old Halloween Traditions That Have All but Vanished
WASHINGTON — Halloween, like many holidays, has evolved. And with it, some of the traditions that once defined the celebration have quietly faded away. While modern festivities still capture the spirit of the holiday, there was a time when things were done a bit differently. Halloween traditions that brought people together and added a touch…
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Is Bringing Meat to Room Temperature Before Cooking — Myth or a Must?
Is Bringing Meat to Room Temperature Before Cooking — Myth or a Must? Here’s What Chefs Have to Say MSN
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New Online Food Preservation Course Offered
FARGO, N.D. — North Dakota State University Extension and Cankdeska Cikana Community College (CCCC) have partnered to create a free online course about home food preservation. Food Preservation 101 is an educational course featuring safe food preservation methods for freezing, water-bath canning, pressure canning, drying and fermenting. “This course is the next piece of the…
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How To Identify Lab-Grown Chicken When It Finally Hits Grocery Store Shelves
How To Identify Lab-Grown Chicken When It Finally Hits Grocery Store Shelves Chowhound
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Archaeologist says Amazon rainforest a man-made garden planted by vast lost civilisation
Archaeologist says Amazon rainforest a man-made garden planted by vast lost civilisation Express
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7 Healthiest White Breads on Grocery Shelves—and 5 to Avoid
7 Healthiest White Breads on Grocery Shelves—and 5 to Avoid AOL
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Eyes on the Fries: How Our Vision Creates a Food Trend
SYDNEY, Australia — Research at the University of Sydney has revealed that we don’t judge food simply on its merits but are influenced by what we have seen beforehand, a cascading phenomenon known as ‘serial dependence’. The research, published today in the high-impact journal Current Biology, was conducted by Professors David Alais and Thomas Carlson in the School of Psychology at…
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Ten of Our Favorite Spooky Farm Jokes
GREENWICH, N.Y. — It’s October, and with Halloween right around the corner, we wanted to share some of our favorite spooky farm jokes with you! While some people like to be scared (or do the scaring), we also like to keep it lighthearted. So in true Morning Ag Clips fashion, here are some of our…
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Plants Have a Backup Plan
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. — Tending a garden is hard work. Imagine it from the plants’ perspective. Each relies on fine-tuned genetic processes to pass down accurate copies of chromosomes to future generations. These processes sometimes involve billions of moving parts. Even the tiniest disruption can have a cascading effect. So, for plants like Arabidopsis…
