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Seattle Times - The research team at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in Hokkaido, headed by professor Junichi Takahashi, initially noticed that dairy cattle that consume a large amount of nitrate from grass growing in soil doused with high ...

MSN MoneyCentral - ... salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom, and produces and distributes consumer deicing and water conditioning products, ingredients used in consumer and commercial foods, specialty fertilizers, and products used in agriculture ...

Boston Globe - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Too many members of the Senate Agriculture Committee oppose tighter limits on U.S. farm subsidies to include stringent reforms in an overhaul of the farm program, the panel's chairman said on Thursday. Because of the need for ...

Globe and Mail - The chaotic and often violent seizures of thousands of white-owned farms disrupted the agriculture-based economy of what used to be a regional breadbasket. The government has cracked down hard on Mr. Mugabe's critics, arresting and beating opposition ...

Bloomberg - The move aims at reducing Ecuador's trade deficit, said Agriculture Minister Carlos Vallejo in an interview with Radio Democracia. Budget Deficit The rise in import duties also ``reflects an attempt by the government at ...

Owen Sound Sun Times - He was an organizer with the Federation of Agriculture and a founder and later secretary/manager of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board. In the mid-1970s, Mr. Boynton accepted an appointment as vice-chair of the National Farm Products ...

MSN UK News - ... second time that UC Riverside, which has a well-respected entomology department, has used the cockroach zoo to entice potential recruits. "Everybody gets grossed out at first," Gomez said. "But then they find out what uses they have in agriculture ...

Miami Herald - Stop,'' warned another. Lanai is interlaced with unpaved agriculture roads composed of Hawaii's infamous red dirt. It has been ground to fine dust over the years, and when streams seep beneath it or rain falls atop it, it turns into a goo that eats ...

Washington Post - The House Agriculture Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday on whether to expand the CFTC's authority and budget. In the Senate, Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) has proposed a bill that would require all energy commodity exchanges to register with the ...

AZCentral.com - Department of Agriculture monitors meat safety under a system that allows meat processors to design their own food safety plans. Many in the meat industry have strict guidelines and test meat for pathogens at various stages in the butchering process ...