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Native pollinators being studied

DAN MULLINS
IFAS Extension Agent Santa Rosa County

The loss of many of our honeybees due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) begs the question: How are our crops and native plants being pollinated? As the maturity of one-third of our food crop species requires movement of pollen by insects or other creatures, this is [...]

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Russian Drought Wipes Out Grain on 27% of Planting Area; Farm Losses Mount

Russia said grain crops were ruined over 27 percent of the planting area this year as the country suffered its worst drought in at least half a century.
Drought wiped out crops across at least 12 million hectares (30 million acres), a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Ministry said today by telephone, declining to be identified citing [...]

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Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth

Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.
NASA-funded researchers Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running, of the University of Montana in Missoula, discovered the global shift during an [...]

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Orchard project to bear fruit

CONSERVATIONISTS hope to arrest the decline of Gwent’s traditional orchards through a project to encourage the planting of new ones, and support the management of those remaining.
Gwent Wildlife Trust’s ambitious two-year project aims to map existing orchards, develop a network of owners and fruit buyers, and help schools, community groups and [...]

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The future, now: Extreme weather forecasts fit scientists’ climate predictions

Millions of people around the world are suffering the effects of extreme weather events – matching up to predictions long made by climate scientists of more frequent and more intense weather events due to global warming.
Whilst a single weather event cannot be attributed to climate change, a number of scientists are highlighting that [...]

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Don’t be guided by emotions on GM food issue: expert

Agartala (IANS)- There is an urgent need to assess the potential of genetically modified (GM) crops as these are nutrient-enriched, drought- and disease-resistant varieties, an expert said here Tuesday at an international conference.
Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, director of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, said: “On the Bt Brinjal issue, everybody should be [...]

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Farmers abandon harvest

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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Licensed farmer to promote soyabean milk

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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German Grain Harvest Will Slump on Drought, Flooding, Farming Group Says

Germany, the European Union’s second-biggest wheat grower, will likely follow Russia in reporting a slump in grain harvests this year after crops were stricken by both drought and flooding, a farmers group said.
Grain harvests will fall to 43.9 million tons in 2010 from 49.7 million tons last year, the DBV German Farmers Association said today [...]

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Fruit grower helped form co-op that became Sunkist

Peter J. Dreher was a rags-to- riches kind of guy – a poor immigrant who worked hard in his adopted land to capture a share of the American Dream.
When 1893 brought lousy economic conditions nationwide, it was hard for anybody to be terribly optimistic, even him.
But that’s the time when the German-born Dreher [...]

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Sugar beet growers unable to use modified seeds after harvesting

A federal judge’s decision has soured one of the sweetest outlooks sugar beet growers have seen in years.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White on Friday banned planting of genetically modified sugar beets until regulators complete a more thorough review of how the scientifically engineered beets affect other seed crops.
That means growers might not be able [...]

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NZ Apple Experiments Bear Fruit for Geneticists

Scientists in New Zealand are combining advanced gene technology with conventional breeding to improve fruit crops. The research could help growers produce crops that are resistant to insects and diseases as well as contributing to improved health and nutrition for the consumers.
At Plant and Food Research in Auckland, New Zealand, [...]

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Weather going haywire

The flooding of Pakistan, affecting 20 million people, is linked to climate change and a sign of more calamities to come.
FOR those who still doubt that climate change is a real problem, the plight of Pakistan today should serve as a lesson. The floods there have been simply devastating.
Up to 20 million [...]

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Food Crisis Threatens Bolivia Due to Climate Change

Persistent drought, cold weather and flooding, all attributed to climate change, are threatening Bolivia with a food crisis, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and experts have recently warned.
FAO coordinator Einstein Tejada said one fifth of Bolivia’s territory now suffer from the effects of climate change, causing food prices [...]

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