Grain Farming

NWFP sugar mills to start crushing after Eid

Sunday, November 22, 2009 PESHAWAR: NWFP Cane Commissioner Abdul Ghafoor Baig has said that sugar mills would start cane crushing by the end of the current month. Talking to APP here on Saturday, he said that Premier Sugar...

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Sodden fields delay planting of cover crops to aid the bay

Maryland farmers encouraged to cut nutrient runoff into bay SUDLERSVILLE — - Schmidt and other Maryland farmers have been in a race with the weather lately - trying to get the last of their fall crops harvested and their fields...

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Seeds of Truth

What better weapon is there to use against starving populations than food? A closer look at the article revealed it wasn't a Norm Coleman ploy to get folks in Minnesota to quit eating burgers and fries, nor a menu for the...

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Results 2976th Council meeting Agriculture and Fisheries

ITEMS DEBATED State aid in Poland for the purchase of agricultural land 7 Genetically modified maize MIR604 8 Conservation of fisheries resources through technical measures 9 EC/Norway: annual consultations for 2010 10 fishing...

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Aberystwyth University awarded Queens Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education

Aberystwyth University has been awarded the Queen_s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. The announcement was made this evening (Wednesday 18 November) at a special reception at St James_s Palace by the Founder...

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Growers Association finishes soggy harvest

Dave Hessman knows. He doesn't have to be out on the golden, combine-scraped ground six miles south of Spencer. Alan Patten of Webb was busy in his John Deere combine and Glen Chenhall of Spencer was...

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Origin Agritech Announces Final Approval of World's First Genetically Modified Phytase Corn

China's First Transgenic Corn Introduces the Next Generation of Agricultural Products Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ GS: SEED) ("Origin"), a leading technology-focused supplier of crop seeds and agri-biotech research in China,...

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Mustafokul Turdibekov : Tajikistan

25 of $1,975 raised. Started raising funds on Nov 21, 2009 Turdibekov Mustafokul is 51 years old, married and has two children. Mustafokul was born and raised in Shahristan, Tajikistan, where he has grown up cultivating wheat...

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Agro-Imperialism?

The questions about agriculture—food, really—in the coming years is the subject of this piece appearing in tomorrow’s print edition of The New York Times. Judging by the adjectives he uses, the writer isn’t thrilled by one...

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Lester Brown -- Climate change means less food, more hunger

As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...

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