Many farmers have already packed their bags, but farming officials say hundreds are continuing to defy the eviction order.
So far, no one has been arrested, even though hundreds of people have ignored the eviction order, farming officials say.
Farming officials say they have too few radiation-detecting machines to test every product from every farm; there are only a few dozen machines in all of Fukushima Prefecture, a region about the size of Connecticut, with 110,000 farms.
Still, farming officials have so far resisted removing what many consumers say is the biggest hurdle to regaining their trust: the lack of transparency in the government's radiation testing.
Though no one involved with New Jersey agriculture seems ready yet to use the term "bumper crop" to describe this year's output, farming officials seem bullish and say that consumers of local produce at farmers' markets, retail stands and supermarkets will share in the benefits: juicy peaches, sugary corn and tomatoes that taste like, well, tomatoes.
But Gerrit Meester, a Dutch farm official in The Hague, calls the situation unsustainable.
Most body farms (official name: forensic taphonomy facilities) are in the US, in "extremely different and distinct" environments to those faced by Australian investigators, Forbes said.
A top European farm official has suggested that yet-to-be-released studies by the European Commission could be used to "kill" heavily promoted and subsidized biofuels by focusing on their total environmental impact.
The owner bought more than 100 dairy cows that month from a finishing farm, officials said.
When finished, the greenhouse will rank as the largest rooftop farm in the United States — and possibly the world, Bright Farms officials say.
