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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:31 PM

Food for Thought: Three books for summer reading....

The summer is here and we're looking for ways to keep our minds busy while we trundle the kids off to the beach or while we are on that long flight to the mainland. Just to keep the discussions going about issues related to sustainable agriculture...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:42 PM

Oahu Agriculture Technology Field Day - June 24, 2008

The Oahu Resources Conservation and Development Council, in conjunction with the Hawaii Agricultural Reseach Center will be holding a field day on Oahu at the HARC field plots in Kunia. See below for more information.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:21 PM

Why the Farm Bill is important to Hawaii

We’re almost “home and dry” with the Farm Bill. Today, Wednesday, May 14, 2008, the House of Representatives passed the Farm Bill Conference Report 318-106, a “veto-proof” majority. The Senate is currently debating the Farm Bill Conference Report with...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:40 PM

Sustainable Agriculture is Back

After a hiatus of several months, I am back writing again. When I left you back in November 2007, I had announced that there were travel scholarships available from the Western Sustainable Agriculture Program to attend the SARE 20th Anniversary Meeting...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:39 PM

Waimanalo Plant Science Field Day, part two...

If you missed the Waimanalo Plant Science Field Day at CTAHR's Waimanalo Experiment Station on Saturday, September 22, 2007, you missed a wonderful opportunity to see the diversity of work that CTAHR is doing in the plant sciences. Field trials of...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:56 AM

Waimanalo Plant Science Field Day

WAIMANALO PLANT SCIENCE FIELD DAY Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007; 9-12 pm Waimanalo Research Station, CTAHR, University of Hawaii 41-698 Ahiki St., Waimanalo, Oahu (mauka of Waimanalo Park, Hihimanu St.) Please join us for our 19 th Field Day, celebrating the...
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Monday, September 10, 2007 8:14 AM

Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops by U.S. Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service monthly magazine reports Amber Waves , has a report in its September 2007 edition, about the adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops . Over the last 12 years, the commercial incorporation of...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 1:47 PM

Poamoho Experiment Station

As mentioned in an earlier blog post, CTAHR's Poamoho Experiment Station on Kaukonahua Road, between Haleiwa and Waialua, was heavily damaged by a brush fire that started Sunday, August 12, 2007. Reports having it starting in one or two of the gulches...
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