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- Food prices rise by 16% year-to-date
- ST. LOUIS AP -- Rising costs for fuel, feed and fertilizer propelled grain prices to all-time highs in June, raising the overall price of crops and livestock by 16 percent this year compared to last year. Corn and soybeans hit record prices. Wheat slipped from historic highs in...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Think before you eat: the widespread effects of factory-farmed meat
- One of the most stalwart defenders of factory farming in America is the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and it's none too happy that the United Nations has concluded that the environment pays a heavy price for our addiction to meat see main story. Tamara McCann Thies, chief of environmental...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Fever Tick Quarantine Enlarged in Starr County; Reduced in Dimmit County
- The temporary preventive fever tick quarantine zone in south Texas' Starr County has been enlarged by nearly 24,000 acres, after fever ticks were found on a premises outside the county's quarantine zone. Inspectors have used livestock market records to locate the 94 head of cattle sold by the ranch March...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Letters to the editor
- Example for Congress On May 3, Rep. Nancy Boyda visited Valley Falls as part of her 2008 listening tour called "Congress on Your Corner." She is back in the 2nd District nearly every weekend, listening to what folks have to say and helping people get results from federal...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- Mangrove project creates fish, fire and hope in Eritrean desert
- HIRGIGO, Eritrea AFP — Kneeling by the sparkling waters of the Red Sea, Ahmed Shengabay presses sand carefully over a mangrove seed. "When this grows, it will provide protection for fish and food for my goats," Ahmed said smiling, waving at a long and thick line of tall trees...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Anger as Seoul aims to reclassify dogmeat
- SEOUL AFP — The Seoul city government is seeking to classify man's best friend as livestock in order to set food safety standards for South Korean lovers of dogmeat, officials say. Somewhere between two and four million dogs are estimated to be consumed in South Korea every year but...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- Canada Gains Greater Livestock Market Access to US/Mexico.
- Byline: Resource News International WINNIPEG, MB, Mar 28, 2008 Resource News International via COMTEX -- The Government of Canada has reached an agreement with Mexico and the US that allows for greater market access for the beef and livestock industries, according to a...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Environmentalists flay U.S. predator control
- DENVER -- Environmentalists say it's time to stop spending taxpayer money on killing predators to protect sheep and other livestock and are targeting the federal program that does it. WildEarth Guardians, a Western-based coalition, announced a campaign this week to get Congress to eliminate a U.S. Department of...
- Research articles 2008-03-15
- Names In The News
- Dr. Robert Gulley has been hired by the Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources as the new program manager for Texas Cooperative Extension. Gulley's primary responsibility will be facilitating activities for the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, said Dr. Bob Shaw of College Station, associate director of the institute....
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- UN says alarmed by prolonged drought in southern Ethiopia
- ADDIS ABABA AFP — The United Nations said Friday it was alarmed by a prolonged drought that has worsened food and water availability in Ethiopia's southern Borena region. Assessment teams have been sent to the area where insufficient October and December rainfall has spurred a surge in disease outbreaks...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Cdn Govt Invests In Manitoba Livestock Research.
- Byline: Resource News International Winnipeg, MB, Feb 22, 2008 Resource News International via COMTEX -- Livestock research in Manitoba will receive in-kind support valued at roughly C$5 million through a five year joint effort between the Government of Canada, the Government of Manitoba...
- Research articles 2008-02-22
- Digital Angel's Livestock Tagging Products Help Secure Food Supply
- Historic Recall Magnifies Growing Necessity for Consumers to Have Greater and More Accurate Information about the Food They Eat Digital Angel Was First Company to Have Its Livestock Tagging System Approved by USDA for Use in National Animal Identification System to Eradicate Animal Diseases Such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy...
- Research articles 2008-02-19
- Inverness Coastguard team active in herding livestock threatened by rising water.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 January 2008-UK Government: Inverness Coastguard team active in herding livestock threatened by rising waterC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25012008 Inverness Coastguard Rescue Team, specialists in swift water rescue, and their Sector Manager Mike Armitage, have been active this...
- Research articles 2008-01-25
- 'Amazing' grain prices feeding farmers' income
- By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Cash poured into farms in 2007 as farmers received record or near- record prices for wheat, corn, soybeans and milo. Economists say commodity prices surged with strong worldwide demand that is outstripping supply. A sign Tuesday at...
- Research articles 2008-01-09
- 'Amazing' grain prices feeding farmers' income
- By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Cash poured into farms in 2007 as farmers received record or near- record prices for wheat, corn, soybeans and milo. Economists say commodity prices surged with strong worldwide demand that is outstripping supply. A sign Tuesday at...
- Research articles 2008-01-09
- Allied Industry
- Proven Rozol® Pocket Gopher Bait - Burrow Builder Formula Now Available for Prairie Dog Control in Texas Liphatech Inc. has announced its proven Rozol Pocket Gopher Bait - Burrow Builder Formula is now approved for black-tailed prairie dog control in the state of Texas. Ranchers and farmers have effectively used...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- The Helen K. and James S. Copley Foundation is contributing $100,000 to the San Diego/Imperial Counties chapter of the American Red Cross to support recovery efforts
- The Helen K. and James S. Copley Foundation is contributing $100,000 to the San Diego/Imperial Counties chapter of the American Red Cross to support recovery efforts. In addition, $50,000 is being donated to the San Diego Humane Society to help care for family pets and livestock displaced by the fires....
- Research articles 2007-11-12
- Three Indonesian villages quarantined in anthrax scare
- KUPANG, Indonesia AFP — Three villages in Indonesia's east have been closed off to outsiders after more than 750 people fell ill from eating anthrax-infected buffalo meat, an official said Tuesday. "We've now recorded 761 people from three villages falling ill after eating buffalo meat infected with anthrax," said...
- Research articles 2007-10-30
- UN ups number of African flood victims to 1.5 million
- DAKAR AFP — The United Nations said Wednesday that at least 1.5 million people from Mauritania in the west to Kenya in the east were affected by some of Africa's worst flooding in decades. At least 270 people have died as result of the floods and waterborne disease across...
- Research articles 2007-09-19
- Spain detects bluetongue in 47 cattle farms
- MADRID AFP — Authorities in Spain have detected bluetongue in cattle in 47 farms in the southern region of Andalusia, a regional government official said Friday. The councillor in charge of agriculture in Andalucia's regional government, Isaias Perez Saldana, told a news conference the disease could spread to the...
- Research articles 2007-08-31
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