Organic Natural and Health Foods Standards Debate
Consumers face four peanut butter varieties from organic natural and conventional to health labels with price and labeling confusion. FDA plans consumer facts sheets while New York City urged label scrutiny. stores and growers' reputations become key signals amid charges of mislabeling. Dhungarees origin traced to Dhunga sailors blue cotton denim trousers.
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New York City
Consumer Affairs Department
Food and Drug Administraon
FDA
Office of Consumer Affairs, Food and Drug Administration
Fishers Lane
Rockville
Dhunga
India
EPA to revise small farm waste discharge permits
The EPA said it is reconsidering whether small farmers must obtain waste discharge permits under antipollution laws. Deputy director Robert Schaffer said comments from farmers prompted plans to simplify the short form application and refine which farms require permits. The agency extended the comment deadline to Jan 20 and hopes to issue rules within two months.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Robert Schaffer
Office of Percomment
Schauffer
Schaffer
Bamy
Schatter
Nounce
Whys Berg
Survey to Update 1972 Crop Production Estimates
The Agriculture Department will conduct a special survey to update 1972 production figures for corn soybeans and sorghum as of March 1. The Crop Reporting Board will release results March 15 with earlier estimates based on late year farm samplings. The 1972 all crops index reached 113 percent of 1967, just shy of the 1971 record, amid poor harvest weather affecting major producing areas.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Plen
USDA
Aso
Wide Awake 4-H highlights 1972 achievements
January meeting at Plymell Community House celebrates Wide Awake 4-H club. Tom Lear, Boyd Lear, and Michael Lobmeyer place purple seal on charter. Jim Lobmeyer named top treasurer. Members win American Royal and 4-H livestock trips. six earn silver pins. New members Rosamary Carmen Mark King join.
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Plymell
Tom Lear
Boyd Lear
Michael Lobmeyer
Jim Lobmeyer
Finney County
Garden City
Sue Hibler
Wide Awake
Tom
Kathy Lear
Tammy Schreibvogel
Jim
Margaret
Mark Lobmeyer
Yarri Schreibvo
Sammy Schreibvagel
Gary Hibler
Patricia Heiman
Marion Lobmeyer
Lobmeyer
Four Leaf Clover Promotes 4 H In Finney County
Rodney Faulds outlines the 4 H program linking youth groups for stronger, broader activities. Enrollment opens to ages 7 to 18 on January 1, with a meeting January 18 at Building No. 5. Local leaders Mrs. Milton Thomas Judy Schneer and Brian Staats will speak. World mercury uses noted as 20 million pounds in 1969 with over 9,000 applications cited.
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Happy Hustlers
Kangas
Cindy Jarmer
Schneer
Becker
Go—Getters
Go Getters 4-H
Pierreville
Rodney Faulds
Finney County Extension
Wis
Sunflower
New K State publication outlines herbicide use and zinc tests
Kansas State University Extension reports new guidance on chemical weed control including crop type weed infestations and weather considerations, plus alternative herbicide recommendations based on Manhattan trials. It notes availability at county labs and Garden City, with testing methods for zinc and iron using DTPA procedures and sample handling precautions.
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Kansas State University
K-State
Manhattan
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Kansas Stalls University
Manhatttan
Garden City
Tabs
Colorado State University
Kansas
Outioa
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