Recent Agriculture Articles page 4

Boston Globe - According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, nearly 15 percent of Peru's population is malnourished. As if that weren't enough, there's an unseemly underbelly to the proposed deal that could lock Peru into a privatized social ...

Newsday - Habitat loss due to the clearing of tropical forests for agriculture, logging and fuel wood continues to be the major factor in the declining number of primates, according to the report. In addition, climate change is altering the habitats of many ...

Los Angeles Times - As soon as the winds abated, he was there," said Mike Espy, a former Democratic congressman and Agriculture secretary under President Clinton. Last month, Espy joined a number of prominent state Democrats in endorsing Barbour's reelection bid. The ...

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Reuters UK - Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Michel Barnier has said he will meet the protesters on Wednesday. Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday she would meet oil companies and urged them not to overreact to recent increases in the cost of oil. ...

Bloomberg - Department of Agriculture said Oct. 29. Soybean harvesting was 84 percent completed as of Oct. 28, compared with 75 percent a week earlier and 82 percent a year ago, it said. ``The two markets were under pressure today on expectations ...

Seattle Times - The Idaho Department of Agriculture and Bonner County Public Works want to test 2,4-D, triclopyr, diquat bromide and other weed killers in colder water temperatures. Eurasian milfoil, once commonly sold as an aquarium plant, originated in Europe and ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - To grow and process the beans that brew each morning's mug of coffee requires enough water to fill 800 coffee cups, and coffee cultivation consumes 2 percent of the water used for agriculture worldwide. The beef in your one-third-pound cheeseburger ...

Miami Herald - The average farm worker in Japan is 63, the Agriculture Ministry said. I want to have a robot that can always work together with me because working on my own is kind of lonely,'' Takahashi said. Still, I don't like the fact that people can eat only ...

Forbes - ... 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 and ...