Some private investors are starting to make long-term bets that the world’s need for food will increase.

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Ants took up farming some 50 million years ago, according to U.S. researchers who traced … Technology& science; Science …

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US Farms, Inc., a diversified Farming and Nursery company, today announced that the Company is in the process of divesting the non-performing segments of its produce brokerage segment which includes tomatoes, asparagus and garlic operations.

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The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is reporting the successful location and destruction of an illegal marijuana garden. Commander Ed Lorenzano says over 10,000 plants were found.

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WYNNE, Ark. - Arkansas farming is a long way from 40-acres and a mule. Now it’s about real-time kinematic Global Positioning Systems, lightbar guidance systems, yield monitors, and variable-rate application systems.

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OPEC nations are apparently colluding to limit oil supplies, which drives the price higher, according to members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (including a top-ranking Republican.) …

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There is a relationship between your health and your plants’ health. How? The types and quality of equipment you use to take care of your plants not only have an effect on your plants’ health, but…

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Central Garden & Pet Company (NASDAQ:CENT)(NASDAQ:CENTA) announced today that management will meet with investors at the Piper Jaffray 28th Annual Consumer Conference in New York on June 11, 2008. A copy of our handout can be found …

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June 11 (Bloomberg) — Western Australia Premier Alan Carpenter is seeking permission to access emergency diesel supplies after a fire at a natural gas plant slashed supplies by 30 percent, the West Australian said.

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The rice fields that blanketed this remote mountain village for generations are gone. In their place rise neat rows of young rubber trees — their sap destined for China …

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