Agriculture Officials Watching For Soybean Rust
Action News 4 Pittsburgh Mon, 13 Jun 2005 8:11 AM PDT
PITTSBURGH -- Agriculture officials in Pennsylvania said they are keeping an eye out for a plant fungus known as soybean rust, which can devastate crops. |
With Millions Still in Poverty, India Considers a Job Guarantee
Washington Post Mon, 13 Jun 2005 8:33 PM PDT
JEJURI, India -- Kailash Jagtap, a millet farmer in western India, spends seven hours a day digging soil with a spade and scooping it onto a plate, which his wife then carries away on her head. Twenty other people work alongside them under the scorching sun. Their mission is to build a pond to... |
Fertilizing keeps farm soils profitable
The Searcy Daily Citizen Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:19 PM PDT
In the heyday of cotton farming in the south, the soil was depleted of nutrients and became much less productive. Billy Collison of J. Collison Company in Bald Knob is concerned that we are in danger of seeing a repeat of that cycle, as is Chad Townsend, owner of Stark Lime and Fertlizer in Rose Bud. |
To stay in business, farmers in Miss-Lou
The Natchez Democrat Mon, 13 Jun 2005 9:19 PM PDT
The latest battles in the farming world aren't just taking place in the fields or in the markets - they're in the labs. No change has affected agriculture as drastically in the last few years as genetically engineered crops that are more resistant to pesticides. |
Study: Lakes Face Major Pollution
AP via Yahoo! News Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:00 PM PDT
Farmers' routine application of chemical fertilizers and manure to the land poses a far greater environmental problem to freshwater lakes than previously thought, potentially polluting the water for hundreds of years, according to new research. |
Study: Fertilizers Harm Freshwater Lakes
AP via Yahoo! News Mon, 13 Jun 2005 7:11 PM PDT
Farmers' routine application of chemical fertilizers and manure to the land poses a far greater environmental problem to freshwater lakes than previously thought, potentially polluting the water for hundreds of years, according to research published Monday. |
Farm runoff worse than thought, study says
MSNBC Tue, 14 Jun 2005 6:48 AM PDT
Algae blooms like this one are caused by excess nitrogen from fertilizer and manure runoff, killing fish by reducing the oxygen in the water. |
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