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LITTLE RIVER – Farmers in Bell County are struggling to deal with an unusually large amount of a toxin that is infecting their corn crops and cutting into their wallets.
It’s called aflatoxin, and the heat wave that hit Central Texas this month caused excessive amounts of it to pop up in [...]
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Zealand is affected the worst as rain ruins corn crops
Many farmers across Denmark are considering completely giving up on the harvest this year, following weeks of unusually bad weather.
The continued intense rain that has been pounding down on the country in recent weeks could lead to a catastrophic wheat and barley [...]
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LUDHIANA: Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, on Tuesday, issued license to a Khanna based farmer for commercial scale production of Soya milk.
The farmer, Mohinder Singh, said that demand for soyabean and groundnut milk has increased manifold, owing to its nutritional benefits for being low in fat. He [...]
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Orange-juice futures fell after independent forecaster Elizabeth Steger predicted a 15 percent increase in the 2010-2011 Florida orange crop, the world’s second biggest. Cotton rose.
Florida’s next crop will total 154 million boxes, according to Steger, the founder of Citrus Consulting International in Orlando, Florida. This year’s harvest totaled 133.6 million boxes, the smallest since 2007, [...]
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GRANDVIEW, Wash. (AP) – Small farmers in central Washington say they are in a crisis – private loans are tougher to get and it’s hard for them to get enough aid from the federal government to expand or simply hang on.
The Yakima Herald-Republic says farmers met with bankers, lawmakers and government [...]
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By National Public Radio
A pound of bacon now costs $1 more than it did last year, according to the Department of Agriculture. And it’s probably going to go higher. The price of pork bellies is up nearly 50 percent since June. The reason? U.S. farmers are raising fewer hogs and shipping more [...]
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Foreign investment has often worked against the interests of African farmers. Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
If dodgy emails offering millions in return for your downpayment to repatriate a stranded Nigerian astronaut do not tempt you, then maybe this will appeal to your speculative side. A hectare of fertile African land, a 99-year lease, and [...]
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FOR the millions who live in the Murray-Darling Basin, the looming election is overshadowed by a draft plan for its future.
The Coalition yesterday promised an urgent assessment of the social and economic impacts of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority plan, claiming an Abbott government would be “equally committed” to food and agricultural production.
The [...]
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This summer’s dry skies and excessive heat have combined to create conditions that one local farmer said are unlike anything he can recall.
“I think this is the worst drought I ever saw, and I’ll be 80 years old in a couple days,” said Roy Byers, whose family owns a dairy farm [...]
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Cleveland’s new way of life is its old way of life
by Anastasia Pantsios
The vision came to Tim Smith early last year. He and his wife Dani, both film buffs, were screening documentaries for the 2009 Cleveland International Film Festival. One of the films, Fresh, featured a large-scale, sustainable urban greenhouse project in [...]
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AFTER NEARLY 10 years of intense technical review, Cape Wind has received government permitting from an endless array of local, state, and federal agencies. Now the only question is whether it is cost effective. The answer is a resounding yes.
The first test is the marketplace itself. National Grid has offered to [...]
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There’s work to be done even after the work is done at Bryant’s Produce Farm.
“We close at seven in the evening but you still have stuff that needs to be cleaned up and put back together and ready for next day,” said owner Emmanuel Bryant. “It’s two separate jobs in one.”
Bryant, a resident [...]
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GEORGETOWN —
In the still and humid morning late last month, researchers on a platform at the mouth of Winyah Bay hoisted the meteorological equivalent of a boom box, a new device that measures wind speeds using sound.
If successful, the novel wind monitor could dramatically reduce upfront costs for new offshore wind [...]
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FANCY FARM, KY (wkms) – Fancy Farm is known as the biggest annual political event in Kentucky, and the most raucous. This weekend, people from as far away as Texas crowded picnic grounds to hear the speeches, and voice support their favorite candidates. Among them were activists, political [...]
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