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Chicago Sun-Times - The Senate Agriculture Committee should consider the Farm Bill this week. Of particular concern for conservation is the funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program and the Grassland Reserve Program. ... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added black ...

Boston Globe - We are working around the clock," Obaidullah Ramin, Afghanistan's minister of agriculture, irrigation, and livestock, said in an interview last week. The moves, which follow a visit to Kabul earlier this month by a State Department delegation that ...

Seattle Times - As a result, our citizens enjoy a high quality of efficiency and operations. It makes agriculture more efficient. It helps us to manage public health. There is no sector in the economy that is not affected by this and does not benefit from this ...

Lompoc Record - The warm Indian summer days the first part of last week were just enough to push the sugar content in our chardonnay high enough for the winemakers to give us the green light to pick. Low-bed trucks became busy hauling mechanical harvesters, tractors ...

Forbes - This will help increase incomes from agriculture, where more than 40 percent of the Philippine labor force is employed, but which contributes only about 14 percent of national output,' Gautier said. Rice, the staple crop, and corn, used for animal ...

Meridian Star - A seventh generation Mississippian, Rickey L. Cole can relate to the small businessman, particularly farmers. “I was brought up and have lived all my life on a little 160-acre truck farm in southeast Jones County,” said Cole, who lives a few ...

MSN MoneyCentral - Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection, and ranks third in the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2006 were ...

Newsday - Some experts say the reason for the emergence of E. coli O157H:7 is unknown; others blame the widespread use of antibiotics in agriculture. Antibiotic overuse kills weak bugs and leaves hardy survivors behind. Microbes also develop resistance when ...

Los Angeles Times - The last war supplemental funding bill, approved in May, included millions of dollars for programs unrelated to defense, such as aid to agriculture. The Bush administration, too, has used prior emergency funding requests to secure money for items ...

MSN UK News - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Tuesday said he saw big business opportunities in India's agriculture, medical manufacturing, environment and energy-related sectors. Though India was one of the world's largest producers of foods and vegetables, nearly ...