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Agriculture began as a partnership between people and plants. Every plant we know as food was co-created, sometimes over a thousand years of growing seasons, by the equivalent of a backyard gardener in partnership with the plant.

It may not be tennis elbow or writer's cramp, but the crush of 46,000 comments the state... ALBANY -- It may not be tennis elbow or writer's cramp, but the crush of 46,000 comments the state has received on hydraulic fracturing may have caused its own occupational hazard: scanning shoulder.

The innovative technology company, which makes eco-friendly packaging and other products from mushroom roots, distinguished itself as a serious player in the sustainablity market when it was among 31 companies worldwide recognized at 2011's forum as a "Technology Pioneer." Bayer left for the annual five-day conference on Jan.

In a 9-1 vote, the Lousiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has appointed John White as the new Superintendent of the Louisiana State Department of Education.

Board of Elementary and Secondary Education President Penny Dastugue wasted little time calling the new board into session to vote on appointing John White, Gov.