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Kansas residents oppose plans for federal lab

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26 counties sign up for stewardship program

Groundwater bill worries ag interests

Western innovator: Researcher looks at big picture

MOSCOW, Idaho -- Sanford Eigenbrode first fell in love with entomology when he was a boy. "I can remember my surprise as a little kid discovering every day you could find an insect you hadn't seen before," he said. "You could do that for the rest of your life." Eigenbrode was drawn by the divers ...

Harmful citrus pest turns up in Redlands

-Enterprise of Riverside (http://bit.ly/xbMdf2 ) says the Asian citrus psyllid (SIH'-lihd) was discovered at the city-owned Granite Grove. The newspaper says the City Council will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to consider a request to spend up to $38,000 to treat all 16 of the city's groves ...

Lawsuit takes on feds' herbicide use

PORTLAND -- An environmental group claims the federal government should have reduced grazing instead of relying solely on herbicides to battle invasive weeds in an Oregon national forest. The group has asked a federal judge to block a herbicide spraying project on more than 20,000 acres of the Wa ...

26 counties sign up for stewardship program

With two-thirds of Washington's counties taking part in a new Voluntary Stewardship Program, the next step is obtaining funding for it, according to the state Conservation Commission. Participating counties can protect habitat in areas used for agriculture through the voluntary program rather t ...

Farmers embrace biotech

While litigation surrounding transgenic alfalfa will likely live on for some time to come, farmers seem to have settled their questions on the issue. At least that's what we take from a recent survey of growers by Daniel Putnam and Steve Orloff at the University of California-Davis. The abstract ...