Tuesday, February 09, 2010
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly failed to make a decision about protecting the rare pygmy rabbit in eight Western states, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by an environmental group. Western Watersheds Project's lawsuit, which was filed last week ...
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Environmentalists say a federal judge's order to temporarily allow unrestricted pumping in the Sacremento-San Joaquin Delta threatens to push an endangered salmon into extinction. Last week's decision by U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger freed up irrigation supplies ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 2:09 PM
NOVA CANAA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) -- Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender. At the government-run experimental farm where he works, he points toward plots w ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:29 AM
SHARON, Vt. (AP) -- The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritional value of the carrots, onions and cabbage because they've studied them in class, and they know how they're grown beca ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:29 AM
TOKYO (AP) -- A clash over control has scuttled plans for Japanese beermaker Kirin Holdings Co. and smaller rival Suntory Holdings Ltd. to create one of the world's largest food and beverage companies. Despite seven months of negotiations, the two companies said Monday could not agree on an acq ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:29 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Black farmers are holding a rally in Memphis to ask Congress to approve a $1.15 billion discrimination settlement. The rally being held Monday at Westin Hotel Beale Street is one of seven regional rallies being held before a national gathering at the U.S. Department of Ag ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:29 AM
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon legislators have a budget hole of more than $180 million to fix. A revenue forecast they got Monday said income taxes collections have been weaker than expected for the first eight months of the two-year budget. When they began a four-week special session last week, ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:09 AM
INDIAN SPRINGS, Md. (AP) -- A volunteer firefighter says five goats survived the partial collapse of a farm building near the western Maryland community of Indian Springs. Lt. Zachary Reid of the Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Department says part of the roof collapsed under the weight of snow Sun ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:09 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho is among several states watching to see if a California animal cruelty law drives flocks of big egg farms there to fly the coop. California voters in 2008 approved Proposition 2, banning cramped cages for laying hens by 2015. Neither Idaho nor Nevada, where official ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:09 AM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A long-running legal tussle over a failed effort to build a hog barn east of Madison has moved to federal court, where a farmer argues civil rights violations because the county denied a building permit. The case has twice been before a state judge and twice before the ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:09 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is proposing a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:09 AM
BEIJING (AP) -- The discovery has punched a 170-ton hole in China's promises to overhaul its food safety system. Officials say they've found yet another case where large amounts of tainted milk powder from the country's 2008 scandal that should have been destroyed were instead repackaged. Ch ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 9:49 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told state agriculture commissioners today that USDA will ask the states and tribal nations to administer a system of animal identification. The new system would trace disease back to its source rather than continue development of the ...
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BEIJING (AP) -- China announced anti-dumping duties of up to 105.4 percent Friday on imports of U.S. chicken products, adding to trade strains with Washington. The case comes amid mutual accusations of protectionism by Beijing and Washington which both say will hurt efforts to end the ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 9:08 AM
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Researchers in Flagstaff are looking at what happens when farmers routinely feed antibiotics to the beef, chicken, pork, turkey, shrimp and salmon you might find at the local grocery store. They're buying meat and seafood from grocery stores here and in Los Angele ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 9:08 AM
A new program to expand U.S. exports will put millions of dollars toward helping farm producers sell products abroad, a top trade official said. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke expanded on the new National Export Initiative at an appearance before the National Press Club on Thursday. " ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:28 AM
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's administration recommended using more government money to produce and develop larger supplies of biofuels such as ethanol. The move came as an energy task force prepared to give Obama a report that predicted the United States would fall short of congressiona ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:09 AM
Here are some answers to common questions about antibiotic resistance and livestock. Q:What is an antibiotic? A:An antibiotic is a medicine that kills or hinders the growth of microbes such as bacteria and fungi. Today the terms "antibiotic" and "antimicrobial agent" are used to refer to both ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:09 AM
Government purchases of potatoes and other surplus fruits and vegetables could give farmers a boost and aid domestic food programs. The USDA announced Jan. 29 it will buy $29.1 million worth of food products for federal nutrition assistance programs. The agency will buy $9 million of fres ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
Is the high-pitched political wrangling over the use of antibiotics in livestock obscuring a legitimate public health concern? Bold proclamations of doom by natural-food advocates notwithstanding, no one knows for sure the extent to which agriculture contributes to diseases' resistance to ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:09 AM
A national conservation organization has filed a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to adequately regulate nearly 400 pesticides for their effect on threatened and endangered species. In the notice filed Jan. 28, the Center for Biological Diversity all ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
If antibiotics for livestock are best used sparingly, what's a rancher to do? Better management of animals can help, explains Chad Mueller, a beef cattle systems researcher at Oregon State University's agricultural research center in Union, Ore. Changing pen designs, providing clean ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:09 AM
If imitation is flattery, China is paying U.S. farmers a big compliment. The country's enormous population is often cited as a sign of strength, but it's also a source of vulnerability. Feeding more than a billion people is no simple feat, especially when they are expecting more food ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
Dozens of agricultural trade organizations will share $234 million in USDA funding this year to boost exports of everything from dairy products to California pistachios. Seventy organizations will receive funding under the USDA's Market Access and Foreign Market Development Cooperator pro ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
One key supporter of the judicious use of antibiotics in livestock is the American Veterinary Medical Association. The AVMA -- a professional association representing some 80,000 veterinarians nationwide -- says the availability of the drugs protects the food supply as well as animal heal ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:09 AM
A new report from USDA indicates sheep and goat numbers have declined in the U.S., but industry experts say those statistics may not tell the whole story. In the past year, the total U.S. sheep and lamb inventory has fallen about 2 percent, to about 5.6 million head, according to the USDA ...
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