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Farmers Will Make Money Again: ABARE

Australian farmers will make money instead of losing it this year as the agricultural sector bounces back from the worst of the drought, the nation's commodity forecaster says.Farm incomes are tipped to soar - tripling in some cases - after a horror 2006-07.The wool industry will lead the way...

Tags: Income, Survey, Drought, Operational Accounting, Finance, AAP

News items 2008-05-07

A Geospatial Decision Support System For drought Risk Management

Drought affects virtually all regions of the world and results in significant economic, social, and environmental impacts. Congress enacted the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to encourage the United States Department of Agriculture USDA Risk Management Agency RMA and farmers to be more proactive in managing drought risk. The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Agriculture, risk assessment, risk management

White papers 2004-04-02

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Blaze relieved to get first win of season, prepare for Crush

The team struggled to come up with enough cliched metaphors to describe last week's 67-50 victory over Kansas City. Utah Blaze players and coaches alike compared the win to getting a monkey off their back. They likened the win to finding the final piece to a puzzle....

Articles 2008-05-08

NCAR Installs 76-Teraflop Supercomputer for Critical Research on Climate Change, Severe Weather

The National Center for Atmospheric ResearchNCAR has taken delivery of a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer that willadvance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. Thesupercomputer, known as a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, is the first in a highlyenergy-efficient class of machines to be shipped anywhere in the...

Articles 2008-05-08

Mozambique chosen for pilot UN disaster project

MAPUTO AFP — Mozambique has been chosen to take part in a pilot UN programme to identify risks and enhance early warning systems in disaster-prone countries, a UN official said Wednesday. Carlos Villacis, programme coordinator of the Global Risk Identification Programme GRIP, said 20 countries would take part...

Articles 2008-05-07

Cleaner air to worsen droughts in Amazon: study

PARIS AFP — Curbing a notorious form of industrial pollution may ironically harm Amazonia, one of the world's natural treasures and a key buffer against global warming, a study released Wednesday has found. Its authors see a strong link between a decrease in sulphur dioxide emissions from coal-fired...

Articles 2008-05-07

Cleaner Air May Threaten Amazon Rainforest

Cleaner air may actually threaten the Amazon rainforest, according to Brazilian and British climate scientists. They claim that a reduction in coal burning and the resultant sulphur dioxide emissions is linked to increasing sea surface temperatures in the tropical north Atlantic, which increases the risk of drought in the Amazon...

Articles 2008-05-07

Australia's koalas threatened by global warming: study

SYDNEY AFP — Australia's koalas are threatened by global warming because higher temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could cripple their food supply, new research showed Wednesday. Koalas, furry marsupials which spend most of their time sleeping in tree branches, are notoriously fussy eaters and live...

Articles 2008-05-06

Malawi's farming revolution sets the pace in Africa

A green revolution taking place in the fields of Malawi has, in three years, turned a nation that was once reliant on international aid to feed half its population into a food exporter. In doing so, it has set an example for other developing countries struggling to...

Articles 2008-05-05

Rossi answers critics by breaking drought

*MOTORCYCLING Valentino Rossi yesterday won his first MotoGP race since his controversial switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres, silencing critics who suggested that the move had been impetuous and that his championship-winning career was over. The 29-year-old Italian recorded fast laps in the closing...

Articles 2008-05-05

Rossi answers critics by breaking drought

*MOTORCYCLING Valentino Rossi yesterday won his first MotoGP race since his controversial switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres, silencing critics who suggested that the move had been impetuous and that his championship-winning career was over. The 29-year-old Italian recorded fast laps in the closing...

Articles 2008-05-05

Bowyer deflates hopes of Hamlin, Junior

RICHMOND, Va. -- Rarely has the ending of a NASCAR race featured as many subplots as the final laps of Saturday night's Dan Lowry 400 at Richmond International Raceway that left winner Clint Bowyer more startled than anything. Local favorite Denny Hamlin's quest for a wire-to-wire victory and...

Articles 2008-05-05

Rossi answers critics by breaking drought

*MOTORCYCLING Valentino Rossi yesterday won his first MotoGP race since his controversial switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres, silencing critics who suggested that the move had been impetuous and that his championship-winning career was over. The 29-year-old Italian recorded fast laps in the closing...

Articles 2008-05-05

Football: ACC STANLEY 0 BURY 2

ANDY BISHOP'S first-half double set Bury on the way to a convincing win. He took his goal tally for the season to 25 thanks to a penalty, after Nicky Adams had been brought down, and a drilled finish just before the break. ...

Articles 2008-05-04

Australia needs years of heavy rainfall to crack drought: experts

SYDNEY AFP — Australia will need several years of heavy rainfall to reverse the devastating effects of a drought that has battered farm production, the Bureau of Meteorology said in a report received Monday. The report came despite months of drenching rains spawned by the La Nina weather...

Articles 2008-05-04

Zvonareva ends WTA win drought in Prague

PRAGUE AFP — Russia's Vera Zvonareva lived up to her top seeding by winning her first WTA title in nearly two years here on Sunday. The 23-year-old from Moscow came away 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 winner against third seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus to lift her sixth title and...

Articles 2008-05-04

Rossi ends victory drought with China MotoGP win

SHANGHAI AFP — Motorcycling supremo Valentino Rossi rode his Fiat Yamaha to victory at the China Moto GP on Sunday to snap a seven race winless streak, beating Spain's Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner of Australia. The five-time Moto GP world champion from Italy completed the Shanghai race,...

Articles 2008-05-04

'Chinatown' Roman Polanski (1974)

STORY OF THE SCENE An LA private investigator called JJ 'Jake' Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson, has been hired to spy on the chief engineer of the city water department. The mystery is why gallons of water are being sluiced from reservoirs at night - in the...

Articles 2008-05-02

Trust me and Ireland will succeed, says Trapattoni

The new Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has demanded his players trust him above all else if the team are to once again become regular qualifiers for World Cup and European Championship finals. "Trust" was a word Trapattoni repeated on many occasions on the day he was finally introduced...

Articles 2008-05-02

Ethanol boosting food costs

WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department's chief economist told Congress on Thursday that prices for corn and other food commodities will remain at "historically high levels" in coming years, as the U.S. ethanol industry expands. Congress' Joint Economic Committee met to discuss the causes behind surging food prices...

Articles 2008-05-02