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Feds May Test Food Products For Glyphosate Herbicide

World Health Organization (WHO)

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, has come under intense scrutiny since a research unit of the World Health Organization reported last month it was classifying glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans."

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Coca-Cola To Buy Chinese Beverage Company

Coca-Cola Company

Headquartered in Xiamen, Fujian Province, Xiamen Culiangwang's top-selling products include green bean, red bean and walnut flavors of plant-based protein drinks sold under the brand China Green Culiangwang.

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USDA Announces Record Number Of Organic Producers in U.S.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

According to data released by the Agricultural Marketing Service's (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP), the number of domestic certified organic operations increased by more than 5 percent over the last year.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Hapag-Lloyd Agrees To Port of Shenzhen Air Quality Program

Hapag-Lloyd has voluntarily undertaken only to use fuel with a sulfur content of less than 0.5 percent while its ships are docked at the terminal.

The companies at stake are Hapag-Lloyd, Hanjin, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), MOL, NYK, ‘K’ Line, Yang Ming, and UASC, along with Hamburg Sud which has a series of agreements with UASC.

Fast Food Workers Call For Nationwide Strike For Higher Pay

The latest wave of protests to press for pay increases to $15 an hour was expected to kick off in New York at dawn outside a McDonald's in Brooklyn, pick up momentum during the day and culminate in a march to Times Square during the evening rush hour.

Protesters, including college students, fast-food restaurant employees and other workers, display placards as they march Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in Boston. Organizers of the event are calling for the nation's lowest paid workers to earn at least $15 per hour.

Flu Outbreak Kills More Than 1.2 Million Turkeys

The H5N2 strain of avian influenza has infected 23 Midwest turkey farms and brings the death toll to more than 1.2 million birds killed by the disease or by authorities scrambling to contain it.

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, turkeys are pictured at a turkey farm near Sauk Centre , Minn. A deadly strain of bird flu has reached the Midwest, killing or requiring hundreds of thousands of turkeys to be euthanized.

Falling Fish Numbers To Halt U.S. Sardine Fishing

West Coast landings have risen from a value of $1.4 million in 1991 to a peak of $21 million in 2012, but are again declining.

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USDA Expands Beef And Pork Trade With Mexico And Peru

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the announcements during a meeting with producers in Des Moines, Iowa.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Vertical Farming Brings Agriculture To Urban Environments

AeroFarms is developing the world's largest-producing vertical farm in a vacant steel factory in Newark that after it begins running later this year, the farm's indoor system will grow around 2 million pounds of baby greens annually.

AeroFarms is set to open the world's largest indoor vertical farm will open in the second half of 2015.

Heinz-Kraft Merger Comes From Weakness, Not Strength, Says CPG Expert: 'It’s Almost As If The Large Tier One Guys Have Surrendered'

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Software Solutions

Farmers Adopt Drones For Tending To Livestock

Scientists at the University of Oxford and other U.K. universities launched the “Robot Sheepdog Project” in 1995, and developed a box-size device that could chase a dozen ducks to one place in an enclosed area.

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Local Food Sourcing Drives Growth For 'Urban Farms' In Rural America

There’s been an unexpected push recently to create hyper-dense farms in the land of wide open spaces, according to NET, Nebraska’s PBS and NPR stations.

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