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...Chile, where salmon farming has boomed in the past decade and generates $1 billion a year in export revenue. "A film of feed leftover made of fish oil, animal fat and transgenic soybean oil floats on the water around the salmon farms," says Ronald Pfeil, 67, a cattle farmer in Chile's remote Aysen region. "When the tide is low, the beaches stink...
...Chinese, who have been farming fish for 2,000 years, pioneered a method in which nothing is wasted. Farmers dig ponds around rice paddies and feed carp in the ponds with weeds from the rice field. The silt from the ponds is used as fertilizer for the fields, and crabs are grown to eat pests. Some of those techniques are being adapted in Western fish farms. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Dan Butterfield, 59, raises bass, carp, catfish and other species in the same pond; the sun and the catfish feces stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, which feeds the other species...
...LOCAL TASTE The Iowa Machine Shed, 11151 Hickman Rd. One of a heartland chain, it's decorated with old farm machinery and calls itself "a tribute to the hardworking American farmer...
Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party had agreed to a moratorium on political campaigning until after the service, yet this mattered little to several of the speakers. Rick Kahn, a close friend of Wellstone’s, delivered a speech that ideally would have been one of the night’s more touching moments. Unfortunately, Kahn injected partisan politics into the mix and actually made a campaign pitch to those in attendance. “We are begging you to help us win this Senate election for Paul Wellstone,” he said. Kahn even urged...
...JOSH HARRIS, 41, who founded webcast company Pseudo.com is now an apple farmer in upstate New York...