Recent Agriculture Articles page 8

Seattle Times - But U.S. commanders have reported inroads against both Shiite militias and al-Qaida in Iraq fighters across the fertile agriculture belt nearer to the capital. They credit local residents, emboldened against the terror tactics of both al-Qaida and ...

Newsday - But U.S. commanders have reported significant inroads against both Shia militias and al-Qaida in Iraq fighters across the fertile agriculture belt nearer to the capital. They credit local residents, emboldened against the terror tactics of both al ...

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 ...

St. Petersburg Times - One favors keeping much of his grandfather's land -- an area bigger than Pinellas County -- in agriculture. The other wants to aggressively develop it. Unlike feuds from years past, this one will be decided in the corporate boardroom, not the ...

Boston Globe - The other leading GOP candidates took the stage alone at the event organized by the state party, but Romney brought his wife, his oldest son, Florida's agriculture commissioner, two congressmen and a former state party chairman with him. And he won ...

Reuters - Achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving poverty to 26.5 percent by 2015 will require a growth rate of at least 4.0 percent in agriculture and 7.0 percent in the non-farm sector," it said in its latest World Development Report. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...