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3/25/2005 - Rendell Adminstration Awards $138,531 Grant To Rodale Institute
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| ##### | Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty today awarded a $138,531 Growing Greener grant to the Rodale Institute to develop advanced soil management methods that lock up nutrients before they pollute local waterways... |
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2/17/2005 - United Nations seeks organic advice from The Rodale Institute
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| ##### | The United Nations has granted The Rodale Institute®, pioneers in organic and sustainable agriculture, special status to consult... |
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10/26/2004 - The Rodale Institute® to Improve Food Security in Africa
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| ##### | ...The program emphasizes ecological pest and land management in order to enhance farm productivity and food security... |
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9/17/2004 - The Rodale Institute® receives USDA grant to help farmers reduce chemical use
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| ##### | A $541,050 federal grant will enable researchers at The Rodale Institute (TRI) to demonstrate how a new spin on old technology could reduce the need for toxic herbicides in American agriculture... |
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8/11/2004 - Farmers and Fishermen Fix Marine ‘Dead Zones’
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| ##### | ...the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) shows that by composting manure, farmers can significantly improve the quality of water entering the nation’s watersheds. |
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5/25/2004 - The Rodale Institute® Wins Research Award
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| ##### | Dr. Paul Hepperly and his research team determined that soils in organic production actually scrub the atmosphere of global warming gases... |
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10/08/2003 - Event in Berks County, PA brings environmentalists and farmers together to fight global warming
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| ##### | More than two decades of data from one of the world’s longest-running research trials proves definitively that organic farming counters global warming. The Rodale Institute® will unveil the results of its groundbreaking Farming Systems Trial® Friday, October 10 at its 333-acre farm in Kutztown, Pennsylvania... |
| 08/04/2003 - Plowing the way for a new agriculture
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| ##### | In the bold quest to increase U.S. certified organic farming by more than 800% in the next ten years, The Rodale Institute® has expanded their portal website, www.NewFarm.org, providing farmers with free, A-Z news, research and market data on organic and sustainable agriculture... |
| 06/13/2003 - The most ambitious agricultural initiative of this century
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| ##### | In May, Anthony Rodale, Chairman of The Rodale Institute®, announced the single-most ambitious agricultural initiative of this century: Rodale called for 100,000 farmers, about 5% of America’s remaining 2 million farmers, to transition to Certified Organic by 2013 ... |
| 05/22/2003 - 100,000 Organic Farmers in US by 2013
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| ##### | Addressing leaders of the US organic industry gathered for a trade show in Austin last Saturday to accept the OTA Organic Leadership Award, Rodale called for 100,000 farmers, about 5% of America’s remaining 2 million farmers, to transition to Certified Organic by 2013... |
| 02/25/2003 - The Rodale Institute® Launches The New Farm Organic Price Index™
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| ##### | The Rodale Institute®, a publicly supported nonprofit organization and the country’s leading advocate for regenerative, sustainable agriculture and organic foods, today launched the first-ever wholesale price index of certified organic foods-The New Farm Organic Price Index™ (OPX™)... |
| 01/23/2003 - The Rodale Institute® Launches The New Farm Organic Price Index™
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| ##### | Now organic farmers will be able to sell their products competitively, using as their guide pricing in the OPX™ for the same organically grown or raised food being sold across their marketing region. The OPX™ will enable them to price their products fairly and avoid the pitfalls of arbitrary pricing... |
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