Wheat Prices May Fall as Russia, Ukraine Boost Sales (Update2)
Bloomberg.com Tue, 27 Sep 2005 3:57 AM PDT
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Alexander Nezhenets spends $60 to produce every ton of wheat grown in the black soil of his southern Russian farm, almost half the cost of production in Kansas, the biggest wheat-growing state in the U.S. |
Fungus is 'new tool for sustainable agriculture'
SABCnews.com Tue, 27 Sep 2005 1:33 AM PDT
Infecting crops with a fungus could be an alternative to genetically modifying them to boost yields, scientists hoping to assist cash-strapped subsistence farmers who find themselves trapped between pro and anti lobbies regarding genetic engineering, said. |
Agriculture, District D Don Roberts
RedNova Mon, 26 Sep 2005 7:29 PM PDT
Location: McCook Established: 1914 Size of the farm: 1,973 acres What Don and Aggie raise: alfalfa, corn, wheat, cane and cattle Don Roberts began encouraging his father and grandfather to focus more on conservation practices as far back as the 1950s. |
A success amid failures
Baltimore Sun Tue, 27 Sep 2005 7:45 AM PDT
Unlike many in Russia, Lenin State Farm makes a profit SLOBODA, Russia // The workers squat in rows, the toes of their boots covered in dirt, and consign the carrots pulled from the soil to their place in the hierarchy of vegetables. |
The art in farming
Casper Star-Tribune Tue, 27 Sep 2005 1:08 AM PDT
OTHELLO, Wash. -- For 37 years, Pirie and Jane Grant have grown everything from hay and wheat to beans and potatoes on their central Washington farm. They've tilled the soil, rotated crops and nurtured their slice of the sprawling area farm and ranch lands -- so much so that agricultural groups have recognized the Grants for their sustainable land practices. |
Manitoba Harvest Winding Down
Ag Report Mon, 26 Sep 2005 3:47 PM PDT
WINNIPEG - Sep 26/05 - SNS -- This year's harvest is starting to wind down in Manitoba, with growers focusing attention on late and long season crops, according to the latest crop progress report from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. |
Chickpeas Need Stress to Set Seed
Ag Report Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:18 PM PDT
REGINA - Sep 26/05 - SNS -- The fact chickpeas will keep growing as long as there are nutrients and enough moisture in the soil makes them harder to grow in areas such as Saskatchewan, where there are a limited number of warm days available for crops to mature. |
AIDS cripples farming in Africa
The Advocate Mon, 26 Sep 2005 5:32 PM PDT
Researchers told attendees of the recent British Association of Science meeting in Dublin that the amount of cultivated land in some African countries has fallen by nearly 70% due to AIDS. Around 80% of Africans live off the land, but the disease, which has infected more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, has left fewer and fewer people able to till the soil. |
Rain, wind and frost hit Minnesota farmers last week
Grand Forks Herald Mon, 26 Sep 2005 3:05 PM PDT
ST. PAUL - Many farmers found last week's weather disagreeable as late-week rains halted the harvest and some crops were damaged by high winds, the state field office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday. |
Conservation planning sign-up pilot announced
Farm And Ranch Guide Mon, 26 Sep 2005 9:22 AM PDT
U.S. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner announced that nine states are participating in the first conservation planning sign-up, a pilot initiative that emphasizes the importance of conservation planning to help farmers and ranchers be better prepared to apply for conservation programs and to comply with federal, state, tribal and local environmental regulations. |
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