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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'...

'Genetic arms race' between bacteria, viruses subject of stimulus grant
(Michigan State University) The oceans teem with microscopic bacteria that produce much of Earth's oxygen as they absorb carbon dioxide greenhouse gas. But fast-mutating viruses also populate the seas, attacking marine bacteria in an ages-old evolutionary arms race. A Michigan State University researcher will probe that ancient dynamic against the backdrop of environmental and climate change, and the pivotal role played by aquatic bacteria in maintaining the Earth's biological balance.

A question of height
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Intelligent countryside management could improve the survival chances of animal and plant species threatened by climate change. The creation of small heat-shielded habitats and better links between habitats would counteract a moderate temperature increase, and give threatened species more time to adapt better and/or to migrate to cooler regions. This is the conclusion drawn by scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research from a British study on saving the Large Blue butterfly.

Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues
(Oregon State University) The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ages.

All in sight
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Visual sightings of whales by marine mammal observers are usually based on observations of the spout, the condensing and warm breathing cloud. It rises between one meter and ten meters over the water surface and remains visible for only a few seconds. A thermal imaging camera now uses the heat of this spout.

Evolution: Crabs go deep to avoid hot water
(National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) Researchers from the National Oceanography Center, Southampton, have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution of a notorious deep-sea giant -- the king crab. The results, published this week in the Journal of Biogeography, reveal temperature as a driving force behind the speciation and radiation of a major seafloor predator -- globally, and over tens of millions of years of Earth's history.

Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this Independence Day
(University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science) As the nation celebrates its birth on the 4th of July, University of Miami Prof. Diego Lirman and fellow coral nursery scientists will be celebrating as well. NOAA announced that The Nature Conservancy and its partners' staghorn and elkhorn coral recovery projects, including Lirman's nursery in Biscayne National Park, will receive $350K in stimulus support from the ARRA to further develop large-scale, in-water coral nurseries and restore reefs along Florida's southern coast and in the US Virgin Islands.

Climate change and the mystery of the shrinking sheep
(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Changing winter conditions are causing Scotland's wild Soay sheep to get smaller despite the evolutionary benefits of having a large body, researchers report in a study that shows how climate change can trump natural selection.

New science review examines multiple health benefits of dairy foods
(Edelman Public Relations) In a supplement to the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, several prominent nutrition researchers weigh in on an updated review of the health benefits of consuming dairy foods. This supplement further contributes to the well-established evidence that consuming the recommended servings of dairy foods each day is a convenient and affordable way to get several key nutrients that many Americans do not consume enough.

Forest Service designates new experimental forest in Tongass National Forest
(USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station) The USDA Forest Service established a new experimental forest in Alaska on June 25. The 25,000-acre Héen Latinee Experimental Forest is located inside the Tongass National Forest, and is easily accessible by road from Juneau, Alaska. It is part of the largest temperate rain forest in the world.

ADA releases updated position paper on vegetarian diets
(American Dietetic Association) The American Dietetic Association has released an updated position paper on vegetarian diets that concludes such diets, if well-planned, are healthful and nutritious for adults, infants, children and adolescents and can help prevent and treat chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes.

International team of students and scientists on month-long field course in Siberian Arctic
(Woods Hole Research Center) Scientists and undergraduate students from across the United States and Russia are departing July 2 for a month-long field course in the Russian Arctic. The program, known as the Polaris Project, is training future leaders in arctic research and education, and informing the public about the impacts of climate change.

Desert rhubarb -- a self-irrigating plant
(University of Haifa) Researchers from the department of science education-biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities of rain in the desert. This is the first example of a self-irrigating plant worldwide.

Inbred bumblebees less successful
(BioMed Central) Declining bumblebee populations are at greater risk of inbreeding, which can trigger a downward spiral of further decline. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have provided the first proof that inbreeding reduces colony fitness under natural conditions by increasing the production of reproductively inefficient 'diploid' males.

Plants save the earth from an icy doom
(Yale University) Fifty million years ago, the North and South poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Sheffield now show that land plants saved the Earth from a deep frozen fate by buffering the removal of atmospheric CO2 over the past 24 million years.

Mangrove-dependent animals globally threatened
(American Institute of Biological Sciences) An assessment in the July/August issue of BioScience finds that substantial numbers of terrestrial vertebrates are restricted to mangrove forests. Many of these specialized species are listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Prospects for mangrove-restricted animals are bleak, because more than two percent of mangrove forests are lost each year.

Researchers survey Mid-Atlantic ridge looking for new life forms, clues to deep-sea communities
(NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service) An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea food webs. The project is part of a 16-nation effort to determine if the underwater mountain chain in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean has its own distinct animal communities.

Anti-biotech groups obstruct forest biotechnology
(Oregon State University) The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being "strangled at birth" by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude even the testing of genetically modified trees, scientists argue in a new report.

Recent news reports of sweetener reformulations raise questions about motivations
(Weber Shandwick Worldwide) The misleading "health" halo surrounding highly-publicized marketing campaigns regarding sweetener reformulations is starting to dim. Recent announcements by Starbucks and other brands that they will remove high fructose corn syrup from certain products are being called into question in news articles by several experts and respected journalists. Recent Washington Post and Chicago Tribune articles have poked holes in companies' marketing efforts, and put forth scientifically substantiated facts about sweeteners commonly used in foods.

Peer pressure plays major role in environmental behavior
(Michigan State University) People are more likely to enroll in conservation programs if their neighbors do -- a tendency that should be exploited when it comes to protecting the environment, according to a pioneering study from Michigan State University.

A thirst for blood sparks toxic algal blooms
(University of Gothenburg) The blooming of toxic algae that occurs during the summer conceal a fight for life and death. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, propose in an article published in the journal PNAS that algal blooms are created when aggressive algae kill and injure their competitors in order to absorb the nutrients they contain."The behavior of the algae can be compared to that of blood-sucking insects," says Per Jonsson of the department of marine ecology.

The tiny difference in the genes of bacteria
(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Every year, diarrhea causes around five million fatalities worldwide. Most people die due to pathogenic micro-organisms, such as bacteria or viruses, which were ingested into the gastro-intestinal tract through contaminated drinking water or food. Determining which bacterium is causing the illness in those cases is sometimes very complex. In cooperation with Chilean researchers, scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany, have now developed a fine-tuned diagnostic method.

Your own private global warming
(Society for Experimental Biology) Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey subjected species found in Antarctic waters to increasing levels of water temperature to learn how well they would cope with a warmer ocean. The study, to be presented at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting on Tuesday, June 30, shows that several of these species are already living really close to their upper temperature range, and that further increases could easily provoke serious ecological imbalances in this region.

BGU'S Desert Research Institutes to receive Cleantech 2009 Environmenal Excellence Award
(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research has won the CleanTech 2009 Excellence Award in the category of Outstanding Academic Institution in the Field of Environmental Studies.

Top food scientist to target hidden fish allergens, pork, with new tests
(Florida State University) The odds of contracting mad cow disease from banned or adulterated bovine protein lurking in raw or processed food for humans or meat-bone meal for livestock have declined over the past decade. So have the risks of purchasing fishy imposters billed as red snapper, ground beef that isn't all cow, or spoiled meat that doesn't look or smell bad... yet.

Water webs: Connecting spiders, residents in the Southwest
(Arizona State University) If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders. A potential horror story for any cricket. However, it is also a tale of water limitation that looks beyond how most ecosystem studies are considered.

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New grain site is shining example of industry collaboration
Farmers Weekly Interactive Jul 4 2009 9:18AM GMT

Potato area down by less than 1%
Farmers Weekly Interactive Jul 4 2009 9:18AM GMT

Clean grain stores a must before harvest
Farmers Weekly Interactive Jul 4 2009 9:18AM GMT

Meat-eaters More Prone to Cancer than Vegetarians, Fish Eaters: Study
Daijiworldcom Jul 4 2009 9:08AM GMT

SAARC workshop on medias role in agriculture development from July 6
Individual.com Jul 4 2009 8:47AM GMT

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Battelle Scientists Forming Plastic Made from Corn
Individual.com Jul 4 2009 8:28AM GMT

Grill more fruit, vegetables, less meat
Individual.com Jul 4 2009 8:26AM GMT

Farmers expect more subsidies from annual budget
NetIndia123.com Jul 4 2009 8:24AM GMT

Monsoon break brings respite to farmers
NetIndia123.com Jul 4 2009 8:19AM GMT

Ohio Corn Growers Showing Their Resilience: OCGA
USAgNet Jul 4 2009 8:10AM GMT

AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Calls for Sustainable Green Revolution
Inter Press Service Jul 4 2009 7:52AM GMT

Govt allows limited wheat export
Economictimes Jul 4 2009 7:43AM GMT

Boyle Community News 3 July 2009 NEW LOOK TO THE FARMERS' MARKET Regular shoppers at Boyle Farmers' Market will have noticed a new look to the layout recently.
Leitrim Observer Jul 4 2009 7:23AM GMT

Farmer's calf with five legs remains healthy
Ein News Jul 4 2009 7:17AM GMT

Organic food farm rakes in RM236m investments
New Straits Times Jul 4 2009 7:17AM GMT

India allows limited wheat export, no subsidy
Yahoo! India Jul 4 2009 7:12AM GMT

Milk Link hands dairy farmers hope
Grocer Jul 4 2009 6:58AM GMT

Loblaw teams up with Dairy Farmers of Canada to deliver 100% Canadian dairy cream to consumers across Canada
Individual.com Jul 4 2009 6:54AM GMT

Farmer passes national exams but two sons fail
Ein News Jul 4 2009 6:51AM GMT

Cotton crop may be higher-than-expected
Business Recorder Jul 4 2009 6:49AM GMT

Exec: Russian Agricultural Bank to up loan portfolio 40% in 2009
PRIME-TASS Jul 4 2009 6:42AM GMT

ADM Introduces New Food Creations at IFT 2009
Food Ingredients First Jul 4 2009 6:41AM GMT

Putin: Agriculture cos to get discount on fuel during harvesting
PRIME-TASS Jul 4 2009 6:40AM GMT

Calgary Farmers' Market secures new site
Grainews Jul 4 2009 6:24AM GMT

Crop Market Close Lower on Thursday
AgProfessional Jul 4 2009 6:16AM GMT

USDA releases report: 'Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S.'
AgProfessional Jul 4 2009 6:15AM GMT

Humane Society, USDA reach settlement to improve animal research monitoring
AgProfessional Jul 4 2009 6:15AM GMT

Experts stress importance of volunteer-corn control to protect future of Bt corn hybrids
AgProfessional Jul 4 2009 6:15AM GMT

Water will again flow south

Blueberry harvest draws to a close

Light brown apple moth battle intensifies

Egg prices crack

Dried plum crop described as 'excellent'

Farmers and ranchers point out role in carbon reduction

Apricot harvest ending

Winter wheat harvest is more than half complete

Dairy farmers call it quits

Cherry season has been a good one

Fewer turkeys grown in California

Harvest helpers: Robots tested in citrus orchards

Bump in processing tomato crop expected

Walnut farmers encouraged by season so far

Once-promising olive crop disappoints

San Diego copes with second Medfly quarantine

Beehive disorder appears to be on the decline

California remains a strong dairy producer

Researchers strive to control destructive moth

Egg production drops

New market for watermelon growers

Plans for farm carbon credits developing

Farmers preparing for wheat harvest

Better erosion control developed

House and Senate to consider new AgJOBS bills

Yolo County quarantine established

Sales of organic milk inch upward

Farmers seek salty solutions

Smaller almond crop predicted

Apricot growers concerned about water for next year

Strawberry growers may set another record

On-farm milk price declines