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The deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be visiting Massachusetts to celebrate the first anniversary of the MyPlate food icon, which was adopted by the agency to promote healthy nutrition.

The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform says it has broken off discussions with Marine Harvest Canada on a project known as a Framework for Dialogue.

Fears about the presence of an infectious virus have forced the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to quarantine a third B.C. salmon farm in two weeks.

When it comes to their southwestern Illinois peach crops this year, Chris Eckert and other growers have every reason to feel a bit warm and fuzzy.

New Jersey is often referred to as a state that has everything. Miles of ocean shoreline, mountains, cities and now, dinosaurs.

CORRECTS YEAR OF KELLY'S STATEMENT - This undated file image provided Friday, May 28, 2010 by Stanley K. Patz shows a flyer distributed by the New York Police Department of Patz's son Etan who vanished in New York on May 25, 1979.

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon.

Wheat prices rose 2.6 percent Friday as questions persisted about how much dry weather has affected the crop in Kansas.

One of the unfortunate memes that has made repeated appearances in the climate debate is that money isn't just influencing the public debate about science, but it's also influencing the science itself.

A new family attraction featuring more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs opens this holiday weekend on 20 acres of woods and grass in northern New Jersey.

Meat prices are expected to rise faster than overall food costs in 2012. Prices rose in the spring and may increase an additional 1 percent to 3 percent this summer.

There is one thing men know about women; they are willing to believe anything about you if you just put forth the effort to fool them a little.

In Harper County, Kan., and the surrounding areas along the south central border of the state, oil companies are pinpointing plots of land they think will become drilling hotspots and offering farmers up to $1,250 an acre for the mineral rights that allow them to drill there.

Linda Galayda hauled water and flagged down truck drivers to ask about their hay.

A magnitude-4.7 earthquake has rattled the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch.

Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25,000 individual cloaks.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has named the members of a council created in a 2010 settlement to ensure Native American farmers and ranchers have access to Department of Agriculture programs.

According to forecasters from Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project, 2012 will be a less-active hurricane season with 4 hurricanes, compared with an average of 6.5 hurricanes between 1981 and 2010, and 10 named storms, compared with an average of 12.

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