Yearly Archives: 2001

Dennis T. Avery Ralph Nader’s No-NAFTA Solution To Sustaining Family Farms Would Mean Cutting Back Output From The Productive Farmlands In the US, Canada and Europe By perhaps One-Third CHURCHVILLE, Va.–As President Bush attempts to get negotiating authority for a … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery A Senate Bill Would Require Schools To Notify Parents Each Time They Use A Pesticide CHURCHVILLE, Va.–For 40 years activists have filled our newspapers and news reports with claims that pesticides endanger children. Now the activists want … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery The UN Points Out The Developed World’s Hypocrisy On Proposed Bans On GM Foods CHURCHVILLE, Va.–A new UN report could persuade The New York Times and other major media into presenting balanced coverage of biotech crops. The … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery …Because Otherwise Many Of Us Would Starve To Death, As ABC Reporter John Stossel Points Out CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Every farmer who’s ever complained about modern agriculture being trashed by the media should get a tape of ABC reporter … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Making High-Yield Farming More Eco-Friendly CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Farming is not natural. All farming represents an intrusion on the wild ecology. But modern farming is taking serious heat for growing its crops in monocultures–cultivating a single crop. The eco-activists, … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery The Pesticide Atrazine Helps Combat Erosion and Improve Yields. So Why is the EPA Guning for it? CHURCHVILLE, Va.-The most important farm chemical hearing in 30 years is under way. The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Antitrust Lawsuits Against Agribusiness Conglomerates Will Only Hurt Farm Exports, and Won’t Help Small Farmers CHURCHVILLE, Va.-Kathleen Kelly, a ranch wife from Colorado, launched an eloquent attack against agribusiness monopolies at a recent U.S. conference on farm … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery What Are Organic Milk Consumers Getting For Their Extra Money? One Of The Finest Bits Of Copy I’ve Ever Read On A Product Package The organic milk carton from my local store says it was produced by … Continue reading →

Dennis T. Avery Environmentalists Take Great Pride in Global Expansion of Wildlife Preserves – But Half Of Major Preserves Are Heavily Used for Agriculture CHURCHVILLE, Va.–Nepal’s Royal Chitwin National Park is home to about 450 endangered rhinoceros and 100 of … Continue reading →