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Don't be last in the mad dash for dinner or you may find slim pickings for Thanksgiving.

With the Halloween season approaching, there are bargains to be found not just on candy and costumes, but also on items like perennials, denim and car tires.

Its been more than 50 years since the White House held a gathering about the effects of hunger across the nation. In 1969, the White House held its first, and only, Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Wednesday, the Biden administration is reviving the meeting, bringing together members of Congress and groups working to fight food insecurity. ...

By Caleigh Wells for KCRW.Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the KCRW-Public News Service Collaboration When Scott Beyliks grandfather started the now four-acre Beylik Family Farms in Fillmore in the 1970s, it was a radical idea to grow tomatoes indoors without soil. Back then, they were pioneers of what has since become a growing trend in the agriculture industry: hydroponic farming. The technology involves lacing water with all the nutrients a plant...

Education officials in Ohio want state leaders to invest in free school meals for all students. Pandemic-era federal waivers enabling schools to offer breakfast and lunch at no cost expired in June, meaning families in need of assistance have to income-qualify for federal school meal programs. For a family of four, its about $51,000 a year for reduced-priced meals and $36,000 for free meals. ...

Tomatoes grown in greenhouses use 90% less water than ones grown outdoors. Why isn’t it catching on in drought-stricken California?

Dan Sumner is a Distinguished Professor with the Ag and Resource Economics Dept., UC Davis. He said the average consumer can not always afford pistachios as a snack.

ORE Catapult and the National Robotarium have secured the Offshore Low Touch Energy Robotics and Autonomous Systems project as a consortium.

Price elasticity, supply and demand curves...what better way to learn about economic fundamentals than through cannabis?

At capacity the beef plan would harvest a maximum of 210 cattle per day, says the document. The place would include a retail store for purchase of aged beef.