SOMALIA: Worries over soil contamination in Ayaha valley
AlertNet Fri, 13 May 2005 7:27 AM PDT
HARGEYSA, 13 May (IRIN) - Two years after experts warned that the soil in Ayaha valley near Hargeysa in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland was contaminated with chemicals, local authorities have yet to move about 18,000 people living there to a safer site. |
High fertilizer, fuel costs drive up farmers' expenses
Wausau Daily Herald Sat, 14 May 2005 2:24 AM PDT
Everywhere they turn, farmers face sticker shock: more than $100 for a bag of genetically engineered, chemically treated seed corn; $4,000 per acre for prime farm ground; more than $100,000 for a new, large tractor. |
Grain Drain
Bangor Daily News Sat, 14 May 2005 5:56 AM PDT
While looking several years ago for a profitable venture for a small farm, Cooperative Extension agent Matthew Williams of Linneus only had to look to his specialty: grains. |
Monsters in Miniature
Newsday Fri, 13 May 2005 4:11 PM PDT
The beetle was as out of place on the Brooklyn maple tree as a peacock in a strip mine. Op-art splotches of bright white dappled its shiny black armor. Black-and-white striped antennae curved in graceful arcs longer than its one-inch body. |
Slug it out with garden slugs
The Biloxi Sun Herald Sat, 14 May 2005 1:15 AM PDT
M .M. of Gulfport wrote me this last week about a problem with which I'm sure many of the readers of this column are familiar: slugs. Her problem has reached the point that she is considering abandoning her interest in gardening. |
Good Words
Corvallis Gazette Times Fri, 13 May 2005 11:45 PM PDT
On May 7, the Gazette-Times graciously published three messages related to my recent loss of my wife. Don't miss an opportunity to say something loving to your partner and other friends and loved ones. |
The Times Plus, Monroe Times, Monroe, Wisconsin, USA
Monroe Times Fri, 13 May 2005 10:35 PM PDT
Spraying today for gypsy moth? MADISON -- Rainy weather and wet conditions have grounded yellow spray planes three days in a row in southwest Wisconsin as part of the Wisconsin Cooperative Gypsy Moth program's efforts to slow the spread of the destructive forest pest. |
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