School board removes agriculture program By Mike Shands
Watauga Democrat Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:46 AM PDT
Watauga High School will have no agriculture program during the 2005-2006 school year. In a unanimous decision during its June 13 meeting the Watauga County Board of Education voted to not offer agriculture courses at WHS for the 2005-2006 school year. |
To stay in business, farmers in Miss-Lou
The Natchez Democrat Fri, 17 Jun 2005 8:08 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. |
Saskatchewan, Kazakhstan ink pact on economic, technological co-operation
Canada.com Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:36 AM PDT
(CP) - The Saskatchewan government has signed an economic co-operation deal with Kazakhstan. Both governments will work together to identify and develop opportunities for future economic and technological co-operation beginning in the agriculture sector. |
Daily Democrat Online - Business
The Woodland Daily Democrat Online Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:03 AM PDT
Conservation tillage updates, water quality research data and a grower panel will be showcased at the 17-year-old farming comparison project at UC Davis' Russell Ranch next Thursday, June 23. The Russell Ranch is home to long-term agriculture studies and provides a living laboratory for students and the new Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UCD. |
Ithaca, new York June 17, 2005
SeedQuest Fri, 17 Jun 2005 7:55 PM PDT
Genetically modified crops containing two insecticidal proteins in a single plant efficiently kill insects. But when crops engineered with just one of those toxins grow nearby, insects may more rapidly develop resistance to all the insect-killing plants, report Cornell University researchers. |
Noxious weeds choking Eastern Oregon
Seattle Times Sat, 18 Jun 2005 1:30 AM PDT
Geologists come here from around the world to look at the textbook-perfect glacial moraines rising above Wallowa Lake, but what they increasingly... |
Watson is Saskatchewan's 2005 Outstanding Young Farmer
Ag Report Fri, 17 Jun 2005 3:34 PM PDT
REGINA - Jun 17/05 - SNS -- Darren Watson received an award for being Saskatchewan's 2005 Outstanding Young Farmer at presentation ceremonies today at Western Canada Farm Progress Show here. Watson will represent Saskatchewan at the National OYF event in Halifax this November. |
Horse power
Missoulian Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:31 PM PDT
SISTERS, Ore. - If the thought of a farmer patiently working his field behind a plow and horses floods you with pangs of nostalgia, take heart. It's on the rebound. |
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