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APHIS says bio-beet rules will come by end of the year

Federal regulators said today they will decide by year's end on the conditions by which they will allow production of biotech sugar beets for the next two seasons. Unregulated production of Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beets was banned last month by a federal judge. USDA's Animal and ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:12 AM

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Groups hope debate fosters awareness of beef issues

Allan Sents knows what it's like to be a small fish in the big pond that is the meat marketing industry. The owner and operator of a 10,000-head-capacity commercial cattle f ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:10 AM

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Vilsack seeks fairness

KEIZER, Ore. -- U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Oregon Aug. 20, one week before a much-anticipated government hearing in Colorado on competition in the livestock ...

Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:08 AM

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200 wild horses rounded up in Idaho

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:29 AM

Hardin County farmer's corn pops in field

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:09 AM

Mo., Premium Standard reach deal on hog odor issue

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:09 AM

Environmental groups question oyster safety

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:09 AM

Moth 'can be fought effectively'

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:24 AM

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Hoop house subsidies come to Idaho

SWEET, Idaho -- A new government program is helping organic farmers extend their growing season through the use of simple hoop houses. Forty-three states participated in a pilot program this year offered through USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program Organic Initiative. One of sev ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:35 AM

Moth 'can be fought effectively'

California county agriculture commissioners are optimistic about the prospects of getting rid of the European grapevine moth. "Basically, we're going to have to eradicate the pest," said Tye Hafner, Fresno County's deputy agricultural commissioner for Fresno County. The infestation "is ver ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:24 AM

Fees to offset $400,000 budget cut

SALEM -- The Oregon Department of Agriculture will use fees to cover some of the $400,000 it will lose from its general fund operating budget as a result of lower state revenue projections. State economists on Aug. 26 announced state revenues were down $373 million from earlier estimates. ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:38 AM

National expert leads swine insemination school

Washington State University Extension's swine artificial insemination school will take place 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Grant County Fairgrounds, 3953 Airway Drive NE in Moses Lake, Wash. The school offers the basics of artificial insemination, according to a press release. National exp ...

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:09 AM

APHIS fumbles on bio-beets

While the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service considers its next step in the regulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets, we take note of criticisms leveled at APHIS by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in his Aug. 13 10-page ruling that banned the genetically engineered crop's further ...

Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:09 AM

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