Recent Agriculture Articles page 6

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 ...

Baltimore Sun - Department of Agriculture's Drought Monitor, which considers agricultural factors such as stream flow, ground water, soil moisture and damage to vegetation. Only Garrett County reported near-normal conditions. "Moderate" drought persists across much ...

Detroit News - The Food Bank Council of Michigan typically provides about six million pounds of food through its Michigan Agriculture Surplus System. The food is purchased from farmers through a state grant that has shrunk from more than $1 million four years ago ...

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 ...

Miami Herald - ... environmental rules in Peru, the House is now set to take up the Peruvian trade agreement, perhaps as early as next week. The agreement would immediately eliminate most of Peru's industrial tariffs, as well as many of the barriers to U.S. agriculture ...

Los Angeles Times - Agriculture uses about 80% of California's developed water -- the water delivered from dams and aqueducts. That has to change, or nothing will change. If we can reduce agricultural water use by just 10%, that would almost double the water available ...

Oregonian - Shin, owner of a seed company in Seoul, South Korea, and Kratochvil, an international trade manager for the Oregon Department of Agriculture, met for a game this past weekend. Shin's adult son, Donghan Shin, played, too. In the common language of ...

Forbes - Among those arrested were two federal agriculture inspectors and two directors of milk cooperatives in the state that sold the adulterated product to bottling companies across the country. A federal police commissioner, Ricardo Silva, said tests on ...

Forbes - What: Teleconference by groups interested in reforming U.S. farm policy to praise a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators for introducing legislation to reform farm policy on the eve the Senate Agriculture Committee markup of the 2007 farm bill ...