Students from eight area elementary schools excitedly played with robots and learned to write software code during the C Spire C3 Jr. Coding Challenge Thursday at Mississippi Children’s Museum-Meridian.
"Over the past few years, as the U.S. organic market has surpassed $60 billion in sales, organic farmers, businesses, and advocates have been engaged in a heated debate about the strength and integrity of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic standards. Now, the agency has finally started taking action to address some of the loopholes long pointed to by advocates."
The U.S. government plans to impose new regulations on food producers and handlers aimed at reducing fraudulent schemes in which non-organic products are sold as organic, one of the biggest changes to oversight of the industry in decades. A final rule from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, published online on Wednesday, seeks to increase confidence…