DesMoinesRegister.com Home. The Iowa Poll, conducted for The Des Moines Register by Selzer & co. inc. of Des Moines, is based on interviews with 400 registered Iowa voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the Democratic caucuses, and 401 registered voters who say they definitely or probably will attend the Republican caucuses. The Iowa Poll, conducted for The Des Moines Register by Selzer & co. inc. of Des Moines, is based on interviews with 400 registered Iowa voters who...

New scientific knowledge is allowing rice researchers to develop better quality rice varieties that could fetch a higher price from consumers, especially increasingly affluent rice consumers in Asia. A major international initiative is being launched to try to boost the income of the world's millions of poor rice farmers and at the same time provide consumers with more nutritious, better tasting food. The main aim of the new International Network for Quality Rice is to help rice breeders...

WHEN Bangladeshi magistrate Rokon-ud-Dowla raided a local fish market to check on the quality of the food for sale, he was shocked by what he discovered. Among the most notorious violators of food safety standards is China, where two companies were found this month to have added a lethal chemical, melamine, to wheat gluten and rice protein which was later used in pet food believed to have killed thousands of dogs and cats in the US. Formaldehyde seems to be one of the most widely found...

The haste to destroy the world s economy is strange considering: 1) there has been no significant global warming for the past nine years; 2) most of our currant modest warming took place before 1940; and, 3) much of the scientific evidence gathered the last twenty years points directly to the sun as the source of our cyclical warmings and coolings over the last million years. The haste to destroy the world s economy is strange considering: 1) there has been no significant global warming...

boneless beef, members of Seoul's parliament have submitted bills seeking to tighten safeguards on beef and other agricultural imports. The bills would require all restaurants and school cafeterias to serve beef and rice with country-of-origin labels; ban genetically modified food from school fare; prohibit the use of beef raised on offal; and eliminate the use of offal in feed production for cattle, deer and other similar animals, Yonhap News reported. Cattle Network - Connecting The Beef...

The number of farmers continues to drop, feeding both the idea of putting together programs to encourage young farmers and the idea of changing from a commodity-based approach to a rural development approach in farm policy. Leaders of the cotton and rice producer groups have balked at stricter payment limitations, calling them an attack on their way of life because the cost of production per acre is higher for their crops. Also, as the person who often tries to bring state and national...