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DOC helps farmers protect lizards

5 Aug 2009 06:01:00 GMT

SPOTTED SKINK: Oligosoma lineoocellatum, 111 mm in length from snout to vent (minus tail). It is much bigger than the common skink, which is 73mm. Tim Hewitt says he first saw them in the 1960s in their hundreds, but now they're rare. Relevant offers

Annual seminar to discuss the role of media in agriculture and development

5 Aug 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Specialized Reporting Region: Worldwide An international seminar on the 'role of the media in agricultural development in ACP countries' (West, Central, East and Southern Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) will be held in Brussels, Belgium from

Vigilance probe in alleged substandard maize seed case

5 Aug 2009 05:38:00 GMT

Nahan, Aug 5 : Deputy Commissioner Sirmour Padam Singh Chauhan has said that a vigilance inquiry would be ordered against the supply of substandard maize high breed 9451 seed to agriculture department by a Delhi firm. He said Agriculture department

Corn Power: Sen. Grassley Snuffs Out Dissent on Ethanol Subsidies.

5 Aug 2009 05:35:00 GMT

PRESIDENT Obama's nominee as ambassador to Brazil, Thomas A. Shannon Jr., is a longtime diplomat trained to speak honestly without giving unnecessary offense. So when Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) asked Mr. Shannon during his July 8 confirmation hearing about

Effie’s gets a crunch from corn

5 Aug 2009 05:31:00 GMT

The Effies Homemade ladies have done it again. Owners Joan MacIsaac and Irene Costello, who launched their Hyde Park-based company in 2007, first made oatcakes, now theyve come out with corncakes ($5.99 for 7.6-ounce package). The 2-by-3-inch crackers

Commercial banks have responsibility to nurture agriculture sector - Melu

5 Aug 2009 05:29:00 GMT

STANDARD Chartered Bank managing director Mizinga Melu has said commercial banks have the responsibility to nurture Zambia's agriculture sector as a tool for economic growth. Speaking at the just-ended Agricultural and Commercial Show, Melu said banks

Burgess steps down as head of Australian Dairy Farmers

5 Aug 2009 05:27:00 GMT

Allan Burgess has stepped down from his role as head of Australian Dairy Farmers after six years of service. Queensland Dairy Farmers Organisation president and dairyfarmer Wes Judd has stepped into the role. Dairy Australia chairman Max Roberts today

Subsistence Farming Helps Pacific Cope

5 Aug 2009 05:27:00 GMT

PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center With Support From Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai?i Family crops see islands through global crisis MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, August 3, 2009)

Master Farmer Gathering Turns Into a Reunion

5 Aug 2009 05:25:00 GMT

Donya Lester never has to speak twice to bring a crowd to order. But she does at the annual Master Farmer gathering. The feisty director of the Purdue Ag Alumni Association is always in control, but even she has to make two or three attempts to bring the

Mutant Corn Can Call for Help When Attacked

5 Aug 2009 05:23:00 GMT

for National Geographic News Gotham City has the Bat-signal; the 'I've fallen and I can't get up' lady has her Life Call pendant; and now, mutant corn has a chemical to call for a hero when villainous vermin attack. By genetically supercharging natural

Agriculture, livestock futures mostly lower

5 Aug 2009 05:12:00 GMT

CHICAGO -- Agriculture futures were mostly lower Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for September delivery slid 7 cents to $5.4225 a bushel, September corn lost 3.5 cents to $3.545 a bushel and December oats slipped 0.25 cent to $2.25. Soybeans

Farmers chase milk money

5 Aug 2009 05:06:00 GMT

MILK continues to move between companies as farmers chase higher prices. For farmers scraping to get through the next year, a few cents a litre between company opening prices can mean the difference between staying in the black or going backwards into

Archer Daniels Midland 4Q Falls on Weak Demand

5 Aug 2009 04:57:00 GMT

Archer Daniels Midland Co. said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter profit tumbled 83 percent as its results were pressured by higher corn costs, lower average selling prices and softer demand. The Decatur, Ill.-based agribusiness company earned $64

Seed crops take root in Hawaiis ag industry

5 Aug 2009 04:50:00 GMT

As Hawaiis agricultural industry continues to decline, a sub-industry is growing in size and work force. The states seed crop industry hit $146 million in value for the 2007-2008 season, surpassing pineapple and sugar, crops that were once Hawaiis

Corn Power

5 Aug 2009 04:46:00 GMT

UPDATE 3-ADM misses Street view as earnings drop 83 percent

5 Aug 2009 04:45:00 GMT

* Shares fall 4.6 percent (Adds details, quotes, updates stock activity) CHICAGO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM.N) reported a much bigger-than-expected 83 percent drop in quarterly profit, as the recession slowed demand for its

China to launch pilot pension project for farmers this year

5 Aug 2009 04:45:00 GMT

A pilot project for the new rural social endowment insurance will be launched by October 1 this year, entitling farmers over the age of 60 to a retirement pension under China's generalized system of preference (GSP), said Hu Xiaoyi, vice minister for

Kansas Farmers Prepare to Seed Winter Wheat

5 Aug 2009 04:44:00 GMT

Most areas of the state received rainfall last week with Hamilton, Morton, Norton, and Shawnee counties with reports of over 3 inches, reports the Kansas field office of USDA's National Ag Statistics Service. Producers averaged 4.9 days suitable for

Huge Export Losses for Wheat Growers Expected if U.S.-Colombia FTA Not Ratified

5 Aug 2009 04:44:00 GMT

U.S. wheat sales to Colombia would likely drop by more than 50% if Congress fails to soon ratify the U.S.-Columbia free trade agreement (FTA), say Colombian wheat buyers and millers here this week. According to U.S. Wheat Associates, that would cost U.S.

AMI Letter to the Editor: Meat Production Is Not a Major Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

5 Aug 2009 04:32:00 GMT

(American Meat Institute) Ezra Klein's commentary 'The Meat of the Problem' [Food, July 29] was ?inaccurate and not scientifically based,? says AMI President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle in a recently published letter-to-the-editor in the Washington

Mihai Anghel looks for more farming land

5 Aug 2009 04:25:00 GMT

hectares of farming land through Cerealcom Dolj company, is going to expand the exploited area and farm more than 40,000 hectares in three years. 'We plan to double the area, to sign lease contracts and combine land plots because there are many

Oregon Hemp Farming Bill Becomes Law

5 Aug 2009 04:25:00 GMT

New State Program for Hemp Farmers to be Established SALEM, Ore., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Vote Hemp, the leading grassroots advocacy organization working to give back farmers the right to grow industrial hemp (the oilseed and fiber varieties of

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Merrigan Announces $6.25 Mission Available In Rural Economic Development Grants

5 Aug 2009 04:22:00 GMT

Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced that USDA is accepting applications for more than $6.25 million in competitive grants under the Rural Community Development Initiative program administered by USDA Rural Development. These

USDA Announces Commodity Credit Corporation Lending Rates for August 2009

5 Aug 2009 04:22:00 GMT

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) today announced interest rates for August 2009. The CCC borrowing rate-based charge for August 2009 is 0.500 percent, unchanged from July 2009. For 1996 and subsequent crop year