Salt slows Indonesia's restoration
Billings Gazette Sun, 23 Jan 2005 0:43 AM PST
LAMTUI, Indonesia - The Dec. 26 tsunami that swept away homes and lives also left behind a poisonous legacy for farmers: salt. Rice and many other plants won't grow in the soil that was fouled by briny waters. |
Go forth and propagate
Pacific Daily News Sat, 22 Jan 2005 8:08 AM PST
Another way: John Borja, division chief of the agriculture development section of Guam's Department of Agriculture, prepares to propagate a mango plant, showing another way to grow fruit trees instead of planting seeds. |
Tsunami sea salt, mud spoil farming, fishing
Pioneer Press Sun, 23 Jan 2005 1:13 AM PST
It could be years before rice paddies and shrimp ponds return to previous production levels. LAMTUI, Indonesia — The Dec. 26 tsunami that swept away homes and lives also left behind a poisonous legacy for farmers — salt. |
Field to fuel
Columbian Missourian Sun, 23 Jan 2005 6:12 AM PST
[see full size image] Ryland Utlaut, a farmer for the past 35 years, is the chairman of Mid-Missouri Energy Incorporated Group, which now comprises 729 farmer shareholders. He initiated the building of the Malta Bend ethanol plant, set to open at the end of this month. |
Landowners, wildlife benefit from program
The State Sun, 23 Jan 2005 0:09 AM PST
EVERY TIME WE travel, while my wife drives I often watch the power-line rights-of-way to see if I can spot a deer or a flock of turkeys. My chances of seeing wildlife are greatly improved if the right-of-way has been managed for wildlife. |
Global warming will impact nitrogen use
Green Island Independent Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:05 PM PST
A two-year study by the Agricultural Research Service found that wheat grown under elevated levels of carbon dioxide over the next half century will need slightly more nitrogen to grow, but not as much as previously predicted. |
Home almanac
San Diego Union-Tribune Sun, 23 Jan 2005 2:40 AM PST
Jerry Rife / Union-Tribune Cat call Can';t wait to get your paws on a different flavor of cat art? Enter the Cat Gallery, a New Mexico company that poses the question, how would Picasso, Matisse, Manet and other famous artists have painted their cats? The resulting cat-art parodies are executed in watercolors, acrylics and mixed media in the masters'; styles, but do not carry the astronomical |
1/23 GAGE: Pesticide recertification and crop update seminar has been set
Corsicana Daily Sun Sun, 23 Jan 2005 0:06 AM PST
Area farmers and ranchers needing credits to recertify their private, commercial or non-commercial pesticide applicators' license are invited to attend the Navarro County Recertification and Crop Update Seminar set for Tuesday, Feb. 1 at the Navarro County Exposition Center, Fannie Mae Vernon Room located at 4021 W. Hwy 22 in Corsicana. |
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