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		<title>The Complicated World of Idaho Garlic</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/11/11/the-complicated-world-of-idaho-garlic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book, A Garlic Testament, Stanley Crawford writes, &#8220;If you grow good garlic, people will love you for it.&#8221; That&#8217;s surely true, but here in Southern Idaho, the space between the garlic growing and the love is littered with complexity. Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a home gardener: It&#8217;s late fall&#8211;perfect garlic-planting season&#8211;but you haven&#8217;t found the time to hit your favorite nursery. Instead, you grab a fat head of garlic from the supermarket, break it up into cloves and plant those cloves&#8211;not in the pasta sauce for which they were intended, but in your garden. What you&#8217;ve just unwittingly done, according to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, is put the state&#8217;s $55 million onion industry at risk&#8211;and potentially cursed your own garden to a half century of white rot disease. White rot is a vicious little fungus that can hitch a ride on seemingly untainted garlic, but once planted in the ground, that bad seed will turn the onion, garlic and other allium varieties in the near vicinity to mush. In the late 1980s, a commercial Idaho garlic grower came down with &#8220;a big infestation of the stuff,&#8221; according to the ISDA&#8217;s Mike Cooper. &#8220;Once it gets in a field [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craft Brewers Hope For a Share of Local Hop Crop</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/11/04/craft-brewers-fight-for-a-share-of-local-hop-crop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I simply wasn&#8217;t prepared for what I saw when Fred Colby, co-owner of Laughing Dog Brewery in Ponderay, pulled open the heavy door to his walk-in cooler. Instead of setting eyes on cases of craft beer, I caught the cold gaze of six very pink pig carcasses. &#8220;Pig beer!&#8221; I blurted out reflexively, in order to suppress what would have been a high-pitched, porcine-like squeal. &#8220;No,&#8221; Colby said, drawing out the word in a calming, cooing way. &#8220;At our annual anniversary party, we barbecue six whole pigs.&#8221; Laughing Dog, it turned out, was on the eve of its sixth anniversary barbecue, and the next day, this large brewery would be filled with friends, fresh beer and the scent of spit-roasted pork. But this day, Colby was more interested in showing me why he believed his North Idaho brewery had become so popular. To the right of the pork six-pack, he grabbed a bag and opened it under my nose. &#8220;The best thing is really stick your nose in there and smell,&#8221; Colby suggested. Suddenly I was flung into a forest after a warm rain. I breathed in deep, earthy aromas, a hint of wildflowers and the slightly bracing bite of pine. &#8220;They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palouse Wheat Farmers Go Against the Grain</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/21/palouse-wheat-farmers-go-against-the-grain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s harvest time on the Palouse, and North Idaho wheat farmer Wayne Jensen has invited me into the air-conditioned cab of his massive combine. A color-coded computer screen shows us exactly how many bushels of grain he&#8217;s harvesting moment-to-moment, while an automatic leveling system keeps the cab true to the horizon even as the rest of the machine tilts against slopes that can pitch up to 50 percent. It feels as if we&#8217;re riding in the coolest off-road lawnmower money can buy. As we sail along, a tractor towing a 785-bushel bankout wagon races to our side. Jensen flips a switch and his load of now-winnowed wheat arcs across a blue autumn sky from combine to wagon in a perfectly composed postcard for industrial agriculture. &#8220;We&#8217;re combining soft white winter wheat,&#8221; Jensen says as his console beeps and flashes and he steers a laser-straight line through golden stands of wheat that will most likely end up in Japan. On average, 80 percent of the wheat harvested in the Palouse region of North Idaho and eastern Washington is shipped overseas. But Wayne Jensen, a third generation Idaho farmer, is trying something new: growing a portion of his crop for local Northwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Love the Lowly Lentil</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/09/09/learning-to-love-the-lowly-lentil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palouse&#8211;that beautifully fertile, camera-ready landscape of rolling hills, deep loess soils, ample rain and cool summer nights spreading across state lines shared between North Idaho and Eastern Washington&#8211;is nearly perfect lentil habitat. Until five years ago, it was the nation&#8217;s lentil-growing capital. Montana and North Dakota now share that title, but the Palouse region around Moscow and Pullman, Wash., still pumps out more than 100 million pounds of lentils a year. Agricultural output, however, can&#8217;t explain why the lowly lentil recently drew an estimated 26,000 people to the National Lentil Festival in Pullman, a mere lentil&#8217;s toss from the Idaho border. The lentil-studded lentil pancakes made with lentil flour do, as do the green-felt lentil costumes, the booths full of lentil T-shirts and assorted lentil knickknacks, the kids carrying lentil placards, the otherwise stable-looking young woman who spontaneously burst out a hallelujah-like &#8220;I love lentils,&#8221; the sweetly strange lentil desserts, and the long lines of lentil devotees queued up in front of a massive pot of lentil chili like worshippers awaiting lentil-laced Communion. &#8220;We&#8217;re giving away probably 375 gallons of lentil chili,&#8221; festival organizer Vicki Leeper shouted over the lentil-inspired din. &#8220;And it&#8217;s the biggest party on the Palouse.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migrants Harvest Cherries with a Song</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/07/11/bringing-in-the-nw-cherry-season-with-a-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHLAND, Wash. &#8212; The cherries are finally ready for harvest in the Northwestern U.S. A cold spring means that this is the latest cherry season anyone can remember. The Northwest News Network’s Anna King has this audio postcard from one of the largest fruit orchards in the world. SOUND: Quiet orchard amb Anna King: It’s hot, dry and dusty in the desert country of southeastern Washington. But here at the Broetje orchards, cherry trees create an emerald canopy. It’s 44-hundered lush acres on a bend in the Columbia River. SOUND: Walking and ladder sound Anna King: All you can see of the cherry pickers are their feet on tall aluminum ladders. Their bodies and faces are hidden up in the leaves. But you can hear the 12-foot ladders shifting and the soft thud of cherries in buckets. SOUND: Thud of cherries And if you stand here long enough … a surprise. SOUND: Singing Anna King: Many of these migrant workers sing to pass the time. SOUND: Singing Francisco Suares is 32 and from Michoacán, Mexico. Even though he’s lost three fingers on his right hand, he’s still a fast cherry picker. Francisco Suares: “Se pone uno melancolico cuando eschucha un [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwest Sturgeon Decline Mirrors Larger Trend</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/06/07/northwest-sturgeon-decline-mirrors-larger-trend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPOKANE, Wash. — Decades of state and federal efforts to recover endangered salmon in the Northwest are well-publicized. What’s less well-known is a project in its infancy—white sturgeon recovery. Scientists only seriously started studying sturgeon in the 1980’s, and concrete information about these fish—and how to care for them in a changing river system—is scarce. World conservation groups report the Northwest is home to one of the last stable sturgeon populations on earth. But as Amanda Loder found out, scientists who work with these fish beg to differ. Sturgeon are really weird fish. They’re throwbacks to a time before dinosaurs. Instead of scales, they’ve got a suit of spiky armor plates lining their backs. Their mouths act like retractable vacuum hoses, sucking-up food from river bottoms. And they get big—up to 20 feet long, and can weigh in at nearly 18 hundred pounds. But after hundreds of millions of years, the sturgeon family is rapidly dying out. Out of nearly 30 species worldwide, only two aren’t considered endangered, threatened, or vulnerable. And one of them—the white sturgeon—lives mainly in northern California and the Northwest. Earlier this spring, fish biologists with various local, state and tribal agencies released nine thousand juvenile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Time Farmers&#8217; Markets Stir Debate in Northwest</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/06/02/full-time-farmers-markets-stir-debate-in-northwest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neighborhood farmers&#8217; markets are popping up across America. According to the USDA, there has been a 250% growth in the number of farmers&#8217; markets in the U.S. (1,755 in 1994 to a total of 6,132 in 2010). The growing popularity of farmers&#8217; markets is leading many cities to try and reestablish permanent public markets like the Pike Place Market in Seattle. After a ten year effort, locavore-passionate Portland is close to opening one of the most high profile market initiatives in the country. Their proposed James Beard Public Market is stirring up a debate that is helpful for other cities like Spokane as we look to the opening of our own public market on June 2. The Oregonian reported this week that while most growers and advocates for local food support the market, there are some reservations and questions. So what do local farmers and their backers at these markets have to say about a permanent public market? Is it a competitor, business booster, or something in between? That depends on whom you ask, but most seem to support the idea — with caveats. The two main caveats mentioned in the Oregonian article have to do with the feasability of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwest Lawmakers Crack Open Egg Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/05/26/northwest-lawmakers-crack-open-egg-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 13:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 SALEM, Ore. &#8211; The Northwest egg industry is changing the way it houses chickens. But animal rights activists in Oregon and Washington say the change isn&#8217;t going far enough. Lawmakers in both Olympia and Salem debated the welfare of egg-laying hens this year. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has already signed one bill and Oregon lawmakers may vote on another as soon as today. Regardless, opponents in both states are launching ballot initiatives aimed at giving hens even more space. Chris Lehman: &#8220;I&#8217;m standing in a long corridor, surrounded by chickens, 65,000 of them. They&#8217;re stacked four levels high, and their job is to lay eggs.&#8221; Greg Satrum: &#8220;Most people walk into a house like this and they&#8217;re just shocked.&#8221; Greg Satrum is a third-generation chicken farmer near Canby, Oregon, so he&#8217;s used to the sight of chickens crammed into small cages. His family&#8217;s business, Willamette Egg Farms, is the largest egg producer in Oregon. The 65,000 hens in this building are just a fraction of the 1.2 million birds here. The vast majority of the chickens here spend their lives in cages just two feet by two feet. And they&#8217;re not in there by themselves, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Sturgeon Back to the Columbia</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/05/04/bringing-sturgeon-back-to-the-columbia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fish researchers affectionately call sturgeons “dinosaur fish.” They’ve swum earth’s rivers for a quarter of a billion years, making them a living relic. But scientists actually know very little about the Columbia River’s white sturgeon population. Yesterday , researchers with the Yakama Nation, the Chelan and Grant County Public Utilities Districts, and a number of other agencies released thousands of juvenile sturgeon into the mid-Columbia River. Fish biologists hope not only to learn more about this ancient fish, but also to recover its declining population. White sturgeons are intriguing fish. Instead of scales, they have spiky suits of armor lining their backs. They can live up to 150 years. And sturgeons get big—often up to ten-or-eleven feet long. But like most animals, they start out small. At around a year old, they’re only about a foot long. You can fit several into a ten gallon bucket. Ambi: Fish flopping in bucket, people talking and laughing. The juvenile white sturgeon release at Wanapum Dam in central Washington was a festive event, with tribal members and scientists carting buckets of fish down to the reservoir. But sturgeon recovery is a complicated issue. They’re not considered a vulnerable species because there’s a healthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Superbug” Book – How Agriculture Helped Create Drug Resistant MRSA</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/24/superbug-book-how-agriculture-helped-create-drug-resistant-mrsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversations about agriculture and health, I think the issues raised in the book, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn Mckenna, need to be front and center, especially as it relates to CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) and the use of antibiotics as a growth enhancer in animals. The book explains: Food animals get many drugs for many reasons. They get them for disease treatment. They get them for disease prevention&#8230;.Food animals also get antibiotics for &#8220;growth promotion,&#8221; a metabolic mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming&#8230;.The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that, of those 29.5 million pounds of antimicrobials given to animals every year, only 2 million of them are actually intended to treat disease. The rest, almost 80% of all antibiotics used in the United States every year, are &#8220;non-therapeutic.&#8221; The process makes human-medicine experts furious. From their point of view, farmers are routinely practicing antibiotic misuse: giving drugs in the absence of disease, and giving them in such small doses that they kill off only vulnerable bacteria and leave the Darwinian battleground clear for the tough ones. Making it worse, many of the animal drugs are identical, or closely [...]]]></description>
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