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Corn conception, and development, is poorly understood. So biology professor Virginia Walbot devotes her career to tackling one of botany’s big puzzles: the sex life of corn.

Family dairy farming-inspired calendars to be distributed at World Dairy Expo and across the country by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.

The plant will be the only canola oil facility west of the Rocky Mountains.

Northwest Dairy Association (NDA), a dairyfarmer-owned cooperative, and Darigold, Inc., its wholly owned milk processing subsidiary, recently pledged support for the draft dairy reform legislation released by House Agriculture Committee ranking democratic member Collin Peterson (D-MN) earlier this summer. Peterson, who plans to introduce the legislation this fall, will be joined by Congressman Mike Simpson (R-ID) as a co-sponsor. The proposal is based on Foundation for the Future (FFTF), a comprehensive dairy reform proposal authored by dairy leaders across the country."Our decision to support the Peterson/Simpson proposal is not one taken lightly,” according to Jim Werkhoven, Chairman of the Northwest Dairy Association and Darigold boards of directors and a dairyfarmer in Monroe, Washington. “We began our evaluation of the proposal more than a year ago, by presenting it to the membership at our annual meeting. Since then, we have discussed the plan in many forums, including area producer meetings. There is an industry consensus building around Foundation for the Future that promises improved economic stability for dairyfarmers and ensures food security for the nation.”

BY SHERRI ACKERMANThe Tampa TribuneTAMPA It’s the latest public education controversy to sweep the nation, and it has nothing to do with high-stakes testing or graduation rates.This debate is about chocolate milk, and it’s coming soon to a cafeteria near you.This summer, the Los Angeles Public School District banned chocolate milk from its lunchrooms. It joined a growing list of states, including Florida, that link the sugary beverage to childhood obesity.One school nutrition manager in Coloradodubbed chocolate milk “soda in drag.”

The South American country hits a pothole on the road to becoming a challenger to U.S. dairy export ambitions.

U.S. Department of Transportation walks away from creating new regulations that would be detrimental to agriculture.

Porter Family honored with Agricultural Environmental Management Award.

The two congressmen pledge to build a more effective economic safety net for the U.S. dairy industry.

Local governments have been stretched to the limit of their capabilities to check food for radiation just before harvesting the first rice crop since the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The farm ministry has attached extra importance to the safety of rice, the nation’s staple food,