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Phone: 207-568-4142
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MOFGA Seeks Executive Director

Conservation Farm Tour at Goranson Farm in Dresden

Healthy soils help produce healthy crops and healthy environments. Learn how to conserve your soil by reducing tillage, at this year's Conservation Farm Tour at Goranson Farm at 250 River Rd. in Dresden on Tuesday, May 28, at 4 p.m.

Free. Please RSVP to Katy Green at MOFGA: kgreen@mofga.org or 568-4142.

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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News

Marijuana Pesticide Contamination Becomes Health Concern As Legalization Spreads
Huffington Post - 5/24/2013.

By Lynne Peeples - When pesticides are used on Cannabis, they may get into the bodies of people smoking the product.

Star investigation: Drugged horses slipping through ‘inadequate’ food system
Toronto Star - 5/24/2013.

By Mary Ormsby and Dale Brazao - The horse "passport" Canada relies on to keep toxic meat off dinner tables around the world is open to fraud and error, a Star investigation has found, confirming the findings of an international audit.

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote on Right of States to Label GE Foods
U.S. Senate - 5/23/2013. The U.S. Senate voted 27 in favor (including Sen. Angus King) and 71 opposed (including Sen. Susan Collins) to amendment 965 to S. 954 (Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013) “To permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered for sale have a label on indicating that the food, beverage, or other edible product contains a genetically engineered ingredient.”

GMO labeling advocates plan to join Saturday march, organize State House lobbying
Portland Daily Sun - 5/23/2013. By David Carkhuff - Advocates of a Maine bill to identify foods with genetically modified organisms as ingredients plan to join a nationwide anti-Monsanto rally on Saturday and are organizing lobbying at the State House on Thursday, May 30.

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