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Japan Lifts Ban on Poultry Imports
Japan lifted its ban on poultry imports from the U.S. states of Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode Island, the Agriculture Ministry said Tuesday. No new cases of avian influenza had been found in those states since final efforts were made to...

Hurricane Damages Continue To Mount
Since Huirricane Charley, it's been one hit after another for Florida's citrus industry. But the damage doesn't stop with just oranges and grapefruit. Just about every agriculture crop has been hit hard and nearly, if not totally, destroyed. The Florida...

Ohio Corn Yield Looking Good
Like the rest of the country, Ohio farmers are beginning to see above average yields for corn. The US Department of Agriculture forecasts record US corn production of 11 billion bushels, and a record corn yield of 149 bushels per...

Florida Agriculture Eligible for Disaster Relief
Florida's agriculture industry, which has been battered by an unprecedented rash of hurricanes, is eligible for 500 (m) million dollars in disaster relief funds. Aid will be available next month to farmers in counties that were declared disaster areas for...

Injury, Death Haunt Farming
For farmers, fatigue is a serious factor in accidents. During harvest, farmers work from dawn to dark, or longer. Fatigue and complacency can cause farmers to let their guard down. They need to be alert to dangers, especially when equipment...

Huge World Crop, Synthetics Dampen Cotton Outlook
In the overall U.S. fiber market today, cotton’s share “continues to be the success story,” says Gary Adams, with cotton actually increasing share in relation to man-made fiber. But, the National Cotton Council vice president of economic policy analysis notes,...

Agriculture Co-Ops Form Insurance Company
Twenty-three agriculture co-ops have formed their own offshore-based captive insurance company — a form of self-insurance — to better control their liability, auto and property insurance costs. The company, Pillar Insurance Ltd., is believed by industry observers to be the...

Kraft Grant Aids Farm Safety 4 Just Kids
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids (FS4JK) recently received a $6,000 grant from Kraft Foods – Creston, Iowa to support its efforts to promote a safe farm environment for children. The grant, through the Kraft Contributions program at Kraft’s Creston plant,...

Study: How Climate Affects Crop Growth
Kansas State University is one of several universities that will share an estimated $5 million federal grant to study how plants respond to environmental changes and how the genetic pathways underlying their responses evolve in different climates. The research will...

Japan and Mexico Ink Free Trade Deal
Mexico and Japan signed a free trade agreement Friday that will be a springboard for Japanese technology and equipment aimed at the U.S. market and give Mexican agriculture an important foothold in east Asia. The agreement, which must be approved...

Mooning on the Farm - The Legend of Luna
Of course, it's just an old farmer's tale -- planting by the cycle of the moon and all. Nobody believes in that anymore -- right? But then, you might schedule a fishing trip by the moon cycle, or determine the...

West Nile Virus Found In Maryland
State agriculture officials said they've found the first evidence this year of West Nile virus on the Lower Shore. An infected mosquito was trapped last week at a ditch near Princess Anne Elementary School. Officials said the discovery has triggered...

Agriculture Takes $54 Million Hit From Frances
The remnants of Hurricane Frances caused more than $54 million in damage to North Carolina's agriculture industry last week, state officials said Tuesday. The worst damage, based on reports from 23 counties, was in nursery products, which accounted for $39...

Hurricane Ivan, Other Storms Dim Agriculture Outlook
It's been a year for record crops - and now, record tropical storms. And even without the encroaching damage promised by Hurricane Ivan the Terrible, a huge category five hurricane lurking in the Gulf of Mexico, damages to the agriculture...

Farmers Arm Themselves With Tabasco
A FARMING co-op in the Netherlands has asked the ministry of agriculture to authorize the use of spicy tabasco sauce to protect their young crops from the insatiable appetites of hares, rabbits, crows and pigeons, a spokesman said. The farmers'...

New method to measure snow, vegetation moisture with GPS may benefit farmers, meteorologists
(University of Colorado at Boulder) A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.

NSF awards $7.5M grant to University of Oklahoma for plant genomics
(University of Oklahoma) A decade ago, a group of University of Oklahoma researchers were sequencing the first human chromosome as part of the human genome project. Today, the OU Advanced Center for Genome Technology is contributing to an international effort to sequence the tomato genome with a $7.5 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation for plant genomics.

New maize map to aid plant breeding efforts
(University of California - Davis) A massive survey of genetic diversity in maize has produced a gene map that should pave the way to significant improvements in a plant that is a major source of food, fuel, animal feed and fiber around the world.

Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
(University of Cincinnati) Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination."

New map of variation in maize genetics holds promise for developing new varieties
(Cornell University) A new study of maize has identified thousands of diverse genes in genetically inaccessible portions of the genome. New techniques may allow breeders and researchers to use this genetic variation to identify desirable traits and create new varieties that were not easily possible before.

Maize cell wall genes identified, giving boost to biofuel research
(Purdue University) Purdue University scientists have helped identify and group the genes thought to be responsible for cell wall development in maize, an effort that expands their ability to discover ways to produce the biomass best suited for biofuels production.

ORNL, Los Alamos pioneer new approach to assist scientists, farmers
(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Sustainable farming, initially adopted to preserve soil quality for future generations, may also play a role in maintaining a healthy climate, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories.

Microorganism may provide key to combating giant salvinia throughout Louisiana
(Louisiana Tech University) A team of researchers at Louisiana Tech University has found that a naturally occurring microorganism acts as a natural herbicide against giant salvinia.

Reference genome of maize, most important US crop, is published by team co-led by CSHL scientists
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in unprecedented detail the DNA sequence of maize. Maize, or corn, as it is commonly called by North American consumers, is one of the world's most important plants and the most valuable agricultural crop grown in the United States, representing $47 billion in annual value.

Public University of Navarre draws up first map of chromosome terminals of higher fungi
(Elhuyar Fundazioa) A doctor in biology from the UPNA, Gúmer Pérez Garrido studied and described for the first time how the telomeres and adjacent sequences of the oyster fungus are organized.

Let them eat snail
(Inderscience Publishers) A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, she explains snail is not only cheaper and more readily available than beef but contains more protein.

Why Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian ones
(University of Haifa) A series of studies carried out at the University of Haifa have found that rodent, reptile and ant lion species behave differently on either side of the Israel-Jordan border. "The border line, which is only a demarcation on the map, cannot contain these species, but the line does restrict humans and their diverse impact on nature," says Dr. Uri Shanas.

U of M plant scientist uncovers clues to yield-boosting quirks of corn genome
(University of Minnesota) The offspring of two inbred strains tend to be superior to both of their parents. Characterizing the gene-level variability that leads to this phenomenon, known as heterosis or hybrid vigor, could boost our ability to custom-tailor crops for specific traits, such as high protein content for human consumption or high glucose content for biomass fuel.

Scientists at UA, collaborating institutions decode maize genome
(University of Arizona) Scientists from the University of Arizona led by Arizona Genomics Institute director Rod A. Wing and from collaborating institutions have deciphered the complete genetic code of the maize plant for the first time.

PLoS Genetics 2009 maize genome collection
(Public Library of Science) Maize is an important crop in many countries of the world. It is widely used for human consumption, animal feed and industrial materials. It also is considered an exemplar plant species for studying domestication, molecular evolution and genome architecture. The authors of the research presented in this special collection used the first description of the B73 maize genome to probe some of the most intriguing questions in genetics and plant biology.

Sweet corn story begins in UW-Madison lab
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) This week, scientists are revealing the genetic instructions inside corn, one of the big three cereal crops. Corn, or maize, has one of the most complex sequences of DNA ever analyzed, says University of Wisconsin-Madison genomicist David Schwartz, who was one of more than 100 authors in the article in the journal Science.

Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.

After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers -- began their precipitous slide to extinction.

Amaizing: Corn genome decoded
(Washington University School of Medicine) In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.

The benefits of stress ... in plants
(American Journal of Botany) This study finds that certain wild flax plants growing in poor soils have succeeded in balancing the stress in their lives -- these plants are less likely to experience infection from a fungal pathogen. This is the first study to attempt to quantitatively explain how plants have evolved a specialization to serpentine soils and ultimately may help to explain floristic diversity in these unique environments.

Scientists unravel evolution of highly toxic box jellyfish
(NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center) With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Yet little has been known about the evolution of this early branch in the animal tree of life. In a paper published today, researchers have unraveled the evolutionary relationships among the various species of box jellyfish, thereby providing insight into the evolution of their toxicity.

UCR plant scientist's research spawns new discoveries showing how crops survive drought
(University of California - Riverside) Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a UC Riverside plant cell biologist has greatly accelerated scientists' knowledge on how plants and crops can survive difficult environmental conditions like drought. In only months since the discovery, six research papers in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature have been published that build on his work, a testament to the interest among plant scientists to nail down how exactly the stress signaling pathway works in plants.

Pew Health Group statement on Senate mark up of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510)
(Pew Health Group) Sandra Eskin, director of the Pew Health Group's Food Safety Campaign, today issued the following statement regarding the markup of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee:"The Pew Health Group applauds the members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee for approving the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) today."

Study: Sea stars bulk up to beat the heat
(University of Chicago Press Journals) A new study finds that a species of sea star stays cool using a strategy never before seen in the animal kingdom. The sea stars soak up cold sea water into their bodies during high tide as buffer against potentially damaging temperatures brought about by direct sunlight at low tide.

Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger
(Burness Communications) Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders underscored how the almost total absence of agriculture in the agreement could lead to widespread famine and food shortages in the years ahead.

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DJ USDA: Global Sugar Output Reduced By 6.4 Million -2-
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Jolley: Five Minutes With Jim Hodges, President, American Meat Institute Foundation
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Gimv launches 60m agriculture fund ||
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Farmers? meet today
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Farmers stage stir against AC, demand compensation for loss
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South Dakota red meat production falls in October? 51 mins ago
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Merrigan Meets with World Food Program and Iraq Agricultural Officials (November 20, 2009)
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Sheep farmers gun for wolves
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South Dakota red meat production falls in October
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Online help for farmers to learn finances
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Ajit Singh thanks UPA for looking out for farmers
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New Approach Developed To Assist Scientists, Farmers
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IFA: Farmers cannot afford carbon tax
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Gigaba blames farmers for attacks on foreigners
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South Dakota Red Meat Production Falls in October
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Agrivida nets $2M USDA grant for biofuels research
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Maine's Oakhurst Dairy Continues Support of Young Dairy Farmers in 4-H Youth Development Program
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USDA Loans: Another FHA?
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Agriculture futures mostly fall, livestock higher
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Scientists complete corn genome
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FDA Takes Action Against Dairy Farm and Owner
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Farm-City Week Promotes Animal Agriculture
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Thanksgiving dinner to be less expensive

Farmers to earn more for milk

Rice harvest almost complete

Added health benefits found in avocados

Irrigation water supplies still uncertain

Turkey meal preparation advice available

California grown citrus now available

Kiwifruit production rebounds

Wet winter needed

Winegrape growers adjust to recession caused change

Farm advisors suggest mushrooms for family farmers

More Medflies found in San Diego County

Families find fun on the farm

World prune market heats up

Retail vegetable prices have declined

Analysts: Farm economy should slowly improve

Wetter winter forecast

Olive harvest smaller than expected

Cattle grazing benefits rangeland

Farm income declines

Rain suspends harvests

Storm may harm grapes

Fire threatens orchards third time in five years

Dairy farmers will earn more for milk

Food costs are lower

Farm group forms to help monitor water quality

Redwood timber market improving

Farmers harvest good quality horseradish crop

Plentiful pumpkin supply in California

Pomegranate quality excellent

Consumers choosing lower priced wines

San Diego County Medfly quarantine announced