Governor Baldacci Calls Attention to Asian Longhorned Beetle

AUGUSTA - Governor John E. Baldacci today joined officials from the Maine Department of Agriculture Maine Department of Conservation, United States Forest Service and Maine Forest Service to kick off an education campaign about the Asian Longhorned Beetle.

Association Between Sugar Consumption And Race/Ethnicity, Family

The intake of added sugars in the United States is excessive, estimated by the US Department of Agriculture in 1999-2002 as 17% of calories a day. Consuming foods with added sugars displaces nutrient-dense foods in the diet. Reducing or limiting ...

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U.S. ready to help address Africa's food problems - Reuters AlertNet

NAIROBI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The United States wants to cut Africa's dependence on food handouts and adopt a sustainable approach to tackling the continent's chronic food shortages, its agriculture secretary said on Tuesday. President Barack Obama said ...

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Forests fall to beetle outbreak

MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST, Wyoming (Reuters) - From the vantage point of an 80-foot (25 meter) tower rising above the trees, the Wyoming vista seems idyllic: snow-capped peaks in the distance give way to shimmering green spruce. But this is a ...

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Free Trade in Agriculture : a Bad Idea Whose Time is Done

Grain traders and food processing companies in both the United States and Europe saw the potential of multilateral rules to free trade in agriculture, as a way to lower commodity prices and to facilitate their move into increasingly ...

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History of lemonade

The very first uses for the lemon in the Mediterranean were as an ornamental plant in early Islamic gardens. Tracking the progress of the lemon tree from its origin in Assam and northern Burma to China, across Persia and the Arab world to the Mediterranean, is difficult because of the lemon’s adaptability to hybridization. This has caused problems for the horticulturist (a variety might not take to a new land), the food historian (unclear references--for example, the “round citron”), and the taxonomist (a proliferation of botanical terms). Although the citron--like a lemon but larger, with a very thick rind and very little pulp or juice--seems to have been known by the ancient Jews before the time of Christ, and perhaps dispersed in the Mediterranean by them, the lemon seems not to have been known in pre-Islamic times. Ilaria Gozzini Giacosa is wrong to claim in her book A Taste of Ancient Rome, that the Romans grew the lemon... source :

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Value of land for animals, agriculture creates issues

David Hedlin, a third generation Skagit Valley farmer, signed up for the experiment three years ago, covering three of his fields with salt water a few ...

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Spencer County Livestock Farmer Certified by ISDA

The Indiana State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) recently certified Bill Tempel, a Spencer County livestock producer, for his adoption of progressive farm ... Hoosier Ag Today

Fields of dirt have become the Coastal Bend harvest.

The lack of rain in the past 10 or so months killed most of the plants before they broke through the surface. Those that did manage to grow had short stalks with little production.

This year’s drought has further stressed farmers who haven’t fully recovered from a devastating drought three years ago.

In 2007 the area saw a wetter-than-average summer, and last year’s conditions were below average, so it was considered a partially bad year.

Scott Frazier saw 30 percent of his grain come up. The grain that did bloom produced about 30 percent of what it would under normal conditions, said the Nueces County farmer.

Only about 5 percent of his cotton crops came up, and they are producing about 25 percent of their average yield. Grain fared better because it’s a bit more tolerant than cotton and a few showers here and there helped, Frazier said.

Troy Nedbalek, president of the San Patricio County Farm Bureau, said the area is seeing lower-than-average yields for grain sorghum and cotton, the two prevalent crops in the Coastal Bend.
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The Farmer's Market at Brookside

Locavore 101: The Farmer's Market at Brookside Several booths are run by New Roots for Refugees, a group co-sponsored by Catholic Charities and the NE Kansas Center for Urban Agriculture. ...

2009 Ohio State Fair review

2009 Ohio State Fair review The poor variety and quality of the food here is even more disappointing considering its location in the Agriculture and Horticulture Building, ...

Animal Welfare Aspects of Good Agricultural Practice pig farming

Animal Welfare Aspects of Good Agricultural Practice pig farming

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Group figures out why fields fluctuate

Great Falls Tribune "There's a lot of variation in a typical 320-acre field," said Carter area farmer Darin Arganbright, president of the Precision Agriculture Research ...

Group figures out why fields fluctuate

USDA increases price supports to aid struggling dairy farmers

USDA increases price supports to aid struggling dairy farmers Craig Lang, a dairy farmer from Brooklyn who is president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, told the House Agriculture Committee last week that the drop ...

USDA increases price supports to aid struggling dairy farmers