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- Population pressures and biofuels are cramping food production capacity, while climate change isn't helping matters.

- The USDA doesn't want to say who ate recalled meat, suggesting that it would confuse the public. That's an interesting way to to do cya for the meat packers.

- Food costs are rising everywhere, it isn't just your market, it isn't just your imagination.

- Rural economies in a sudden economic boom because of high grain prices, though input costs are rising fast, as well.

- A 4-acre certified organic greenhouse is up and running in Michigan.

biofuels and the related high demand for corn... it's gonna be a very bad thing for the dead zone in the Gulf! :(