New venture capital firm off to blazingly fast start
Cultivian Ventures began investing in a no-man's land just as the financial crisis ramped up, and now it's already considering a second fund.
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Study calls for restricting development in Indy area
Prime farmland is disappearing fast, Indiana University researcher warns.
Indiana’s smelly news
If it isn’t huge methane bubbles in manure pits, its drug suspects actually hiding in the stuff.
Indiana’s place in a globalized economy
How will the state stand up against booming—and highly innovative—emerging nations?
Showdown for ethanol
Powerful new lobbies are fighting over the future of the controversial industry. Who are they appealing to? You.
A tip for getting into vet school
Like cattle, hogs and other big farm animals? You’re now considered a diversity candidate.
Raw milk controversy foams again
Want to start a fight? Don’t say “health care reform.” Try “raw milk."
Dow AgroSciences and the Holy Grail
Dow AgroSciences could boost its market share in genetically altered corn almost overnight by inventing a perennial corn.
But investors might not have the patience.
Return to horse slaughterhouses?
Paul Dieterlen is the unusual veterinarian who doesnâ??t have a pet. But Dieterlen, who retired recently from
overseeing the meat-inspection division within the State Board of Animal Health, says that if he had one,
it would be a horse.
So it…
Integrity of organic foods
The organic food industry is in an uproar over concerns that organic fertilizer may have been spiked with
synthetic versions.
Last month, FBI and federal agriculture officials searched a California organic fertilizer factory, but wouldnâ??t
disclose their motive. The…
Farm and suburban polluters
Drive through areas hit by the deluge of rain in the past few days and youâ??ll see mind-boggling soil
erosion.
At the base of myriad fields lie deltas of sediment washed downhill from elsewhere in their respective watersheds.
Not only was…
Farm bill stranglehold
It isn’t easy providing tomatoes to the nation. Consider the ongoing struggle at Red Gold Inc. The state’s largest food processor, which is headquartered north of Anderson in Orestes, was all but locked out of buying tomatoes from Indiana growers under…
Ex-food chief: Crops for fuel is OK
In his five years as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, Jim Morris saw global
hunger from an uncomfortably close vantage point.
So, one might expect him to criticize the idea of turning corn and soybeans into alternative…
Energy and farmland values
You probably arenâ??t begrudging farmers and others for the record farmland prices theyâ??re enjoying.
But those prices wouldnâ??t be so high if the ethanol plants popping up across Indiana and elsewhere in the
Midwest werenâ??t using so much corn.
Now weâ??re…