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| Saturday, January 15, 2005 7:07 AM PST |
Biotech Crop Harvest Comes Amid Discord
Environmental News Network Sat, 15 Jan 2005 2:34 AM PST
Food is one of our most basic needs; it nurtures and sustains our bodies and minds. It brings us together with our friends and loved ones. Yet today's industrial agriculture depletes the soil and water supplies and damages our health. |
Federal program rewards farmers for conservation efforts
Duluth News Tribune Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:16 PM PST
NEW MUNICH, Minn. - Conserving the land isn't a new concept for Chuck Uphoff. The New Munich dairy farmer has been following conservation practices for three decades, including applying only nutrients his crops need, limiting how much he tills the soil and planting an estimated 3,000-4,000 trees. |
SeedQuest - Central information website for the global seed industry
SeedQuest Fri, 14 Jan 2005 2:10 PM PST
The United States wants to work cooperatively with cotton-producing countries in West Africa to address the region's cotton production and promotion issues, says Jim Butler, deputy under secretary of agriculture for farm and foreign agricultural services. |
Welcome
USDA Sat, 15 Jan 2005 2:37 AM PST
In 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln founded the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he called it the "people's Department." In Lincoln's day, 58 percent of the people were farmers who needed good seeds and information to grow their crops. |
Two join Oldham extension agency
Oldham Era Fri, 14 Jan 2005 2:22 PM PST
On Dec. 1 - her first day at the Oldham County Cooperative Extension office - Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent Traci Missun arrived to find a snake on her desk. |
2005 EQIP sign-up underway for Minnesota producers
Tri-State Neighbor Fri, 14 Jan 2005 1:03 PM PST
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It supports production agriculture and environmental quality as compatible goals. |
Toxic Test Results Alarm Gert Town Residents
WDSU TheNewOrleansChannel.com via Yahoo! News Fri, 14 Jan 2005 2:17 PM PST
Neighbors in Gert Town fear traces of pesticides and other chemicals from a now-defunct plant will make them sick. |
Skip row planting shows promise for water rationing
Agriculture Online Sat, 15 Jan 2005 2:39 AM PST
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- The second year of skip-row planting field trials for dryland corn continued to show positive results for this water-rationing strategy, a University of Nebraska cropping systems specialist said. |
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