Recent Agriculture Articles page 10

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 ...

Miami Herald - Department of Agriculture does not tie specific reasons to any acre lost, but growers and other industry officials say the problems are plain. Canker and greening forced the destruction of tens of thousands of acres of trees in the past decade, and ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Take for example the fiscal year 2008 agriculture and defense bills. According to fiscal watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense, the House version of the agriculture appropriations bill (passed in August) contains no less than 410 earmarks requested by ...

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 ...

International Herald Tribune - NEW YORK : Commodities rallied Thursday as investors sought protection from the tumbling dollar, which slid to new lows after a surge in unemployment claims raised concerns about the health of the U.S. job market. Oil surged to a peak; precious ...

MSN UK News - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization must become a more flexible, leaner and less bureaucratic organization if it wants to survive and meet the challenges of the future, an independent panel of experts recommended in its final report Thursday ...

Patriot Ledger - ... smacked her with a bull hook repeatedly behind her ear and on her leg.’’ Bruce Read, Ringling Bros. vice president for animal stewardship, said the use of bull hooks and tethering elephants with chains is OK with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

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 ...

San Francisco Gate - ... are being lobbied vigorously by the state's cotton and rice farmers and fruit and vegetable growers who want more money for research and marketing, and Bay Area environmental and food activists seeking to change the government's role in agriculture ...