Organic farming is a production system that sustains agricultural productivity while avoiding or largely excluding synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Whenever possible, external resources, such as commercially purchased chemicals and fuels, are...

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With consumer demand for organic foods increasing, the number of acres of U.S. farmland certified for organic use has also been growing at double-digit annual rates. Acreage under organic cultivation nationwide more than doubled from 1992 to 1997, according to a new study...

Movie star Paul Newman has just added a line of organic foods to his Newman's Own food company (which he runs as a charity sideline). He did it at the behest of his daughter, Nell, who's a biologist, a Californian, and passionate about...

Richard de Wilde estimates he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars this week when a foot of rain inundated his organic beef and vegetable farm in southwestern Wisconsin."Out of our 100 acres of vegetables, we had easily 30 under water," de Wilde, one of the...

Prince Charles said Tuesday that urgent action is needed to fight climate change, likening the struggle to Britain's battle against Nazi Germany in World War II.The environmentalist prince told a business conference at his St. James's Palace residence that "the crisis of climate change is...