Future Unclear on $2 Billion-a-Year U.S. Land Reserve
Environmental News Network Mon, 16 May 2005 6:33 AM PDT
A vast amount of fragile land set aside for a taxpayer-funded conservation program that pays U.S. farmers $2 billion a year is about to lose its protected status, and environmentalists are demanding changes to bring more soil, water and wildlife benefits at a lower cost. |
Experiment Station Researchers To Explore Genome Of Disease-fighting Fungus
Science Daily Mon, 16 May 2005 3:05 AM PDT
A team of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station scientists will soon begin genome sequencing a disease-fighting fungus used to protect crops, which has implications for both agriculture and the pharmaceutical industry. The fungus, Trichoderma virens, is used to protect field crops from various plant diseases. Researchers say the genome sequencing work may uncover chemical compounds and beneficial |
Belfast scientists help tsunami relief effort
4NI Mon, 16 May 2005 3:44 AM PDT
Two local scientists from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development are embarking on a mercy mission to the Banda Aceh region of Indonesia. |
Focus On Organic Farming
WEEK-TV News 25 Mon, 16 May 2005 6:12 AM PDT
Research shows organic farming is becoming one of the fastest growing areas of U.S. agriculture. From 1997 to 2002, organic farmland in Illinois jumped 20%. |
'YOUNG LAS VEGAS, 1905-1931: BEFORE THE FUTURE FOUND US': Chapter 12
Las Vegas Review-Journal Sun, 15 May 2005 12:22 PM PDT
Las Vegans were not the first to pull for a dam on the Colorado River. Since the 1850s, dreamers had pondered a dam to make the turbulent waters more navigable, to prevent flooding of farmland and, even, to irrigate the desert for agriculture. |
M'sian Firm To Team Up With German Scientist In Biotech Venture
Bernama Mon, 16 May 2005 1:12 AM PDT
FRANKFURT, May 16 (Bernama) -- A Malaysian resource-based company, FybOrganic Technologies Sdn Bhd, plans to team up with a German scientist in a biotechnology venture to produce biofertilisers and animal feed from discarded oil palm trunks (OPTs). |
An ear to the ground
Peoria Journal Star Mon, 16 May 2005 1:12 AM PDT
Despite cold weather and dry conditions, most central Illinois farmers have their crops in the ground and are now hoping to match last year's corn harvest. |
Taiwan fruit arrives in Chinese mainland
Asia Times Mon, 16 May 2005 4:28 AM PDT
FUZHOU - The first batch of fruit from Taiwan arrived at Mawei port in east China's Fujian Province Sunday morning in the wake of visits to the Chinese mainland by Lien Chan, chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), and James CY Soong, chairman of the People First Party (PFP) on Taiwan. |
New law will change definitions of ag lands
BizJournals Sun, 15 May 2005 9:35 PM PDT
A new state law is likely to remap Hawaii's land-use pattern by identifying important agricultural lands and opening up fallow and unusable farm lands to other uses. |
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