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• Facts and Data on Antibiotics and Factory Farming
• Selected charts from USDA Family Farm Report 2001 - ERS Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 768 May01
• The Green Revolution: A Critical Look
• Monoculture - Kirk Lumpkin / Co-Hearing 1983.

• Food Biotech Is Risky Business - Wired 1dec03

• Complete Industrialization Of Farming: Weeding Out the Skilled Farmer -  CropCoice 25nov03

• Green Revolution in India has Farmers under Severe Debt  - UNI 16dec01

• Plan would turn struggling Cranberry Bogs into Fish Farms  - AP 21oct01

• Trading Away American Family Farms -  Food First 19oct01

• Organics Enters the Science Wars - ISIS News 12oct01

• House approves $170 billion farm bill after rejecting conservation shift  - AP 5oct01

• Foes Say Farm Bill Too Costly, Not 'Green' Enough  - Reuters 1oct01

• Testimony of Ag. Sec. Veneman  - at  Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry 26sep01 2001

• Mega-Farms, the Rich get bulk of Federal Farm Aid  -  AP 9sep01

• Support Increased Funding for Sustainable Agriculture  -  Berkeley Daily Planet 5sep01

• Big Hog Farms, Big Subsidies Taxpayers May Foot the Bill for Environmental Cleanup  -  Washington Post 17aug01

• New Farming for Britain Towards a National Plan for Reconstruction - Jules Pretty / University of Essex, Colchester 10aug01

• Santa Cruz Researchers Fear Planned Housing  - SF Chronicle 7aug01

• Ecological Society of America Berates Pesticides - BioMedNet News 6aug01

• Health Fears Over Sludge After Suspicious Deaths  - Washington Post 6aug01

• US Ag Trade Surplus Up Significantly During First Half of FY 2001  - USDA 9jul01

• New Farming for Britain Towards a National Plan for Reconstruction - Jules Pretty / Fabian Society 10aug01

• Cuba's Successful Agricultural Transformation  - Oxfam Press Release 20ju01

• My Truths Today:  It's Still All About Sustainability - John M. Gerber / University of Massachusetts 1jul01

• Pesticide Contamination of Milk - Dairy Indemnity Program - Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs (CFDA) Jun01

• The Economic Impacts of Pollinator Declines: An Approach to Assessing the Consequences  -  Conservation Ecology Jun01

• Behavior of Sewage Sludge-Derived PAHs on Pasture  - Environmental Science and Technology May01

• Waste Lands: The Threat of Toxic Fertilizer Released by PIRG Toxic Wastes Found in Fertilizers -  ENS 7may01

• Green Revolution Yields to the Bottom Line  -  New York Times 15may01

• Toxic Wastes Found in Fertilizers  -  ENS 7may01

• Effects of Federal Tax Policy on Agriculture - Conclusions - ERS/USDA 1may01

• The USDA, Foot-and-Mouth & Rationing the Truth  -  Acres USA May01

• Organic Cotton Creating Revolution - Altwire 27apr01 

• ADM Reaches Accord With Farmland, Hoping to Reap Bounty From Great Plains  - Wall Street Journal 27apr01

• Pesticides Cause Mad Cow Disease Theorized by Mark Purdey  -  The Age 24apr01

• Farm Waste Runoff Found to Rival Global Warming  -  Baltimore Sun 13apr01

• Global biodiversity and the ancient carbon cycle  - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 10apr01

• Health scares helps Europe's organic food industry, but will it last?  -  AP 19mar01

• EU farm ministers to debate ongoing meat crisis  -  AP 18mar01

• EPA Details Proposed CAFO Rules  -  AgWeb News 13mar01

• U.S.' Top Hog Processor Accused of Planned Pollution in Lawsuit  -  LA Times 1mar01

• Idaho Struggles to Unload Surplus Potatoes  -  Christian Science Monitor 27feb01

• US Needs More Grain-Based Fuel Production - Veneman  - Reuters 22feb01

• Argentina: Industrialized Agriculture and GE  - PANUPS 16feb01

• Farming Practices are Endangering our Future Food Supply says a study of satellite data  - New Scientist 14feb01

• Bigger harvests, without pesticides or genetically modified crops ? -  New Scientist 3feb01

• Researchers Seeking Low-Fat Soybean Scientists help farmers respond to marketplace  -  Scripps Howard  29jan01

• Seed Savers Reaping Satisfying Harvests  - AP 26jan01

• New 'USDA Organic' Food Label Dismays Natural Farmers Small-scale growers dislike bare-minimum standard -  AP 21jan01

• European Union Food Scares Stress Farm Reforms, Safety  -  DJN 19jan01

• FDA: Large Number of Animal Feed Companies Not Complying with Regs to Prevent Mad Cow - Agribusiness Examiner 19jan01

• Scientists seek better way for porkers to pig out - AP 8jan01

• Factory-Farming Practices Linked to Human Illnesses -  Peter Rosset / SFC 7jan01

• U.S. Growers Farm Federal Funds Without Billions in Subsidies, Rural Life Would Wither -  NYT 24dec00

• Earth-friendly Aggies dot the Global Landscape - ENN 14dec00

• Zimbabwe Farmland: People go Hungry, the Struggle for Land Ownership Prevents Most Farming -  Baltimore Sun 12dec00

• Insufficient Land to Meet Organic Trend Says Chemical Manufacturer - The Scotsman UK 4dec00

• Rising Costs Squeezing Small Farms  - SFC 29nov00

• Produce sans pesticides proves profitable for Ventura County, Calif., farmers - Ventura County Star 16nov00

• California Dairy farmers want state to raise milk prices - AP 15nov00

• Record crops bode ill for soybeans and corn - WSJ 13nov00 

• Human waste used on San Joaquin crops causes stir - AP 8nov00

• Brentwood split by plan to protect rural flavor - SFC 7nov00

• Mineral coating could cut chemical use - AP 3nov00

• Kentucky Clamps Down on Factory Farm Pollution - EHP 18oct00

• Agribusiness Concentration, Not Low Prices, is Behind Global Farm Crisis - Worldwatch News Release 1sep00

• Nitrogen and the Upper Mississippi River - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Sep00 

• How U.S. Farming Policies Have Pushed Family Farmers Toward Extinction - Multinational Monitor Jul/Aug00

• The Green Revolution in India: Is The Joyride Over?  - Down To Earth Features Packet No. 1: 239, 28jul00

• Roseland Organic Farm in Cass County grows into its own -  South Bend Tribune 2jul00

• Hog Factories Create Animosity - Star Press ?jun00

• Diatomaceous Earth: Inert dusts: using the past to protect the future  - New Agriculturalist Mar00

• Fuel Saving Ideas for Farmers - Minnesota/Wisconsin Engineering Notes

• History of U.S. Corn Production - W.E. Larson and V.B. Cardwell, University of Minnesota 1999

• Farm Groups Warn of Altered Seeds: Unpopularity of genetically engineered crops may hurt sales, planters told - Washington Post 24nov99

• Benefits of Small Farm Agriculture In the Context of Global Trade Negotiations - Peter M. Rosset, Ph.D., Director, Food First Sep99

• US Farmers' Hideous Pursuit Of Profit - London Daily Mail (UK) 12jun99

• Board Smells Lower Land Values Near Hog Farm: DeWitt Co, IL officials grant lower assessments -  Journal Star 6may98

• Agricultural Consolidation a Threat to Farmers and Consumers -  South Bend Tribune 10apr99

• Effects of Dietary Roxarsone Supplementation, Lighting Program, and Season on the Incidence of Leg Abnormalities in Broiler Chickens - Poultry Science 1feb99

• Antibiotics in Cattle Feed Linked to Superbug -  The Times of London (UK) 24mar98

• Small Farms: A Time to Act  -  Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms Jan98

• Chicken Farm Is Raising a Big Stink In Tiny Highgate, VT -  Wall Street Journal 13nov97

• Cheap Food and the Loss of Farmland: A Farmer's Perspective - Michigan Organic Food & Farm Alliance 1nov97

• How Monsanto's Biotech Miracle Undermines Organic Farming  -  Sierra  Jan/Feb97

• Agriculture and Food Security: Environmental Constraints  - FAO / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 13nov96

• Coca Cultivation and Cocaine Processing: An Overview - Executive Summary - Drug Enforcement Administration / Intelligence Division / Strategic Intelligence Section 1sep93

• Notes From an Organic Farmer -  John B. Clark, PhD / The Human Ecologist Spring90

• The New Deal for Share-Croppers - William R Amberson / The Nation 31feb1934