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December 2002:

column	Final Word: Europe: ?Our Food, Our Rules;? Quote of the week; a special Christmas story
column	Letter from New York: The gift of community
column	Dispatches from Dairyland: Breakdown of disaster aid hikes stress for dairy farmers
feature	Diversified operation in Iowa emphasizes customer relations & direct marketing
NEWS	Industrial farming, monoculture cause trouble for native pollinators
feature	Steve Mckaskle's personal cotton research center
feature	Mississippi holds first statewide sustainable ag conference
feature	John Ikerd's farm economy state of the union address: Part 3
NEWS	Rice yields in Asia: organic farming performs well
feature	We are vulnerable but not powerless
feature	Family builds healthy relationships with customers through organic grains, meats
column	Letter from Ontario: Farmers wonder how to make ag?s ?multiple-benefits? profitable
column	From One Farmer to Another: Making hay this year . . .
column	Final Word: COOL's benefits; Aussie beef trades free; no competition, no low food prices
feature	Just who got milked?
feature	John Ikerd's farm economy state of the union address: Part 2
column	Dispatches from Dairyland: Dairy prices a crime, says Brenda
column	High Value Farming: Why diversify?

November 2002:

feature	John Ikerd's farm economy state of the union address: Part 1
column	Final Word: U.S backs Aussie trade argeement; In Congress: some wins for agriculture
feature	Ending the race to the bottom
NEWS	Pesticide residues in children fed conventional foods 9 times higher than in organic kids
column	Dispatches from Dairyland: Why dairy farmers feel abandoned
column	Dispatches from Dairyland: Brenda's own story
feature	Proof positive that regenerative ag can out-perform conventional
NEWS	Drought adaptiveness of organic crop systems and the future of food production
column	Dispatches from Dairyland: The origins of our dispatches from dairyland
column	Final Word: New house ag committee chair; pork checkoff; and GM contamination
NEWS	Roundup Ready soybean genetics found in foundation seeds used by breeders
NEWS	Appeals court rules that pork producers must continue to pay checkoff assessments
NEWS	Pharma crop mix-up fires up GMO debate
feature	Excerpt from "Steel in the Field"
NEWS	Mexico's pork farmers face collapse when import tariffs are lifted next year
NEWS	Farm chemicals may affect male fertility, MU researcher says
NEWS	Innovative greenhouse design for vegetable production all winter in Canada
NEWS	Florida voters give factory hog farms the boot
feature	Pennsylvania farmers consider new system for happy hogs
NEWS	AMS allocates $5 million to the National Organic Cost Share Program
NEWS	McDonald?s closes restaurants in 10 countries -- BSE cow disease a factor
column	Letter from Ontario: Six essential characteristics of a better future for agriculture
feature	Scientists honor sustainable farming research leaders
column	Letter from New York: Reflections at harvest time, with thanks
feature	The pork checkoff: unconstitutional yesterday, mandatory today
column	Final Word: Thad Cochran to take farm policy reins; Farmers make Londoners smile
NEWS	Oregon GMO label defeat spells uphill battle ahead
NEWS	Second edition of The Non-GMO Sourcebook is released
NEWS	South Australian farmers?' We don't want genetically engineered crops'
column	Letter from Ontario: Intervening in farm markets for the public good
feature	Can Europe's model help us protect agricultural lands?
feature	The bottle bill and farmers
column	Final Word: Chicken slaves, and honest talk from Swiss ag leaders
NEWS	The ecological importance of field margins

October 2002:

column	Final Word: GMO labelling and the European Union
NEWS	Better nutrition from in-season vegetables
NEWS	Fungicides reduce beneficial compounds in grapes
NEWS	Technology extends Mom?s wisdom into cafeteria choices
feature	Pennsylvania local officials demand right to regulate factory farms
NEWS	Pork checkoff ruled unconstitutional
NEWS	Farmer sends manure in protest. His message?milk prices stink
feature	An odyssey of discovery
NEWS	Studies show Roundup herbicide to be hormone disruptor
feature	Patchwork takes pork to the people. . . and gives firm market to the farmers
feature	The Frantzens manage for quality in soil, hogs and life
feature	10 reasons communities should worry about large-scale, corporate hog operations
column	The Farm Life: Marriage -- A market gardener
NEWS	Toxic groundwater: Even "safe" pesticide levels may be harmful
NEWS	France not ready to end ban on new gene crops
feature	A better way: Hog farming that meets the animal's social instincts
NEWS	Small organic farmers pull up stakes
NEWS	Europeans push politicians on GM seed contamination
feature	Dead Zone Economics
feature	Economic fallacies of industrial hog production
feature	Canadian conference on factory hogs, sustainable alternatives set for Saskatoon
feature	Oregon GM-Food ballot question draws FDA bluster
feature	Animal Welfare Institute Humane On-Farm Husbandry Criteria for Pigs
feature	Iowa farmers awarded $33 million in suit against factory hog facility
feature	The New Farm� and innovative Iowa farmers present at birth of PFI
NEWS	Farmers, environmentalists ask USDA to block marketing of moldy corn
NEWS	Disparity in CEO compensation extends to ag sector
feature	Rural residents in Northern PA say fragile valley no place to establish factory farms
column	Letter from Ontario: Standing up to commodity agriculture
feature	?New farmers? need skills ag schools don?t offer ? yet
feature	Chicken Day at the Salatin Farm, Part 2
feature	How to zap pests, build soil with cover crops in strategic crop rotations
feature	Taking hogs to new heights in Pennsylvania
feature	A Market Gardener's Testament: A cautionary tale of family time not spent
feature	Michigan farmers sell direct to Japan
feature	Minnnesota NRCS Organic Transition Incentive Program Update
feature	?New farmers? need skills ag schools don?t offer ? yet
feature	Dead Zone Economics

September 2002:

feature	The New Farm� Archives: Pig-Powered Composting
feature	Niman Ranch: AWI Approved
feature	Commercial fisherman, former marine testifies to negative impact of CAFOs
column	Letter from Ontario: Wishes and dreams for Ontario agriculture
feature	Russian townswoman finally makes the transition to farmer
feature	The Farm Life: The family business
feature	Direct marketing well-raised hogs takes special finesse
feature	Putting the family out to pasture
feature	Willy and the Poo: A telling story of hogs, people, deceit and hope

August 2002:

feature	The Farm Life: Why we farm
feature	The New Farm� Archives: Fitting The Farm To The Hog
feature	Certified mistakes: The most common certification mistakes?according to inspectors
feature	Contamination protection: 10 ways to minimize GMO contamination
feature	Cost share for organic?
feature	GM liability protection
column	Are you killing your soil?
feature	10 Strategies to Minimize Risks of GMO Contamination
feature	Answers to your certification questions
feature	Legal issues shaping our acceptance of biotechnology and GMOs
feature	Letter from California: Organic fruit grower reflects on peaches of the past
feature	The New Farm� Archives: Hogs just might be the ideal grazers
feature	Conservation meets organic agriculture
feature	'Chicken Day' at the farm of many faces
feature	Super Greenhouse
feature	What is Regenerative Agriculture? Thinking beyond organic and sustainable
feature	The ABCs of marketing to restaurants
feature	Building a farm with a future in Japan
feature	Protect your cabbage family crops from the diamondback moth
feature	Farmers find new friends in Pennsylvania hog scrap
feature	Use tadpole shrimps to control weeds in transplanted paddy rice
feature	Letter from Senegal, land of the Baobabs
feature	Romance vs. Reality: Hard lessons learned in a grass-fed beef cooperative
feature	Why do we farm, anyway?
feature	Humor: Farmers?The last competent people?
feature	Tractor seat philosopher
feature	The New Farm� Archives: Swedish system lowers stress, disease
column	Letter from New York: How the Martens made the transition to organic
feature	The New Farm? is back!