Beekeepers across the country have found major losses, and an Asian parasite, the Varroa mite, is blamed for much of the bee death.
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A Parasite Devastates Bees, and Farmers Are Worried
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Category Archives: Agriculture
Grasshopper Infestation Hits S.D. Ranchers
Ranchers have enough to worry about as drought stunts growth in their pastures, without having to deal with a new threat: an early season grasshopper that’s eating new grass on rangeland west of Hot Springs.
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Organic food store a newcomer to Culpeper
Northern Virginia families are starting to move there in search of affordable housing. Many, she figured, would have the interest and disposable income to buy the all-natural products from her and other small, area farmers.
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Cave Pharming Yields Big Crops
aves are the new Midwestern farmlands. A former limestone quarry and underground warehouse grows crops better than greenhouses or the outdoors, and could host pharmaceutical crops.
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Chile’s Fresh Fruit Boom Not So Sweet for Workers
Guadalupe Hidalgo, 40, hasspent 20 grueling years picking fruit. Her low wages and harshworking conditions are the dark side of Chile’s booming freshfruit industry and buoyant economy.
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[ReadMe]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45989-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world
Cloned Cows’ Milk, Beef Up to Standard
Milk and meat from cloned cattle are almost identical in composition to the milk and meat from conventionally bred cattle, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the nutritional value of food from clones.
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[ReadMe]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45025-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health
Land of milk and money
Critics say Horizon and other mass-production dairies don’t deserve the organic label — and that the USDA needs to come up with a real definition.
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[ReadMe]: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/13/milk/index.html?source=RSS
Virus threatens Spain bullfights
Spain’s bullfighting industry faces the worst crisis in its history because of a mosquito-borne virus, say breeders.
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[ReadMe]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4347723.stm
Pigs domesticated ‘many times’
Pigs were domesticated from wild boar independently at least seven times around the globe, a new study has said.
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[ReadMe]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4337435.stm
A recipe for small farm success
Mateo Kehler said he’s living in a failing dairy economy. Vermont’s hilltop farms are fading fast. He and Andy Kehler wanted to demonstrate that there is a way to make a good living milking 30-40 cows on a rocky hillside in northern Vermont.
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[Originally][ReadMe] from [CNN](http://www.cnn.com)
[ReadMe]: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/18/otr.kehler/index.html
You Want Any Fruit With That Big Mac?
McDonald’s new focus on fresh fruits and vegetables is making the company a major player in the American produce industry.
Fast-Growing D.C. Suburb Tops Rural List
In its February issue, Progressive Farmer magazine named Fauquier County, Va., the best rural place to live. Faquier also experienced one of the largest percentage increases in population of any county in the U.S. between 2000 and 2003.
Massive cow manure mound burns for third month
Read (cnn.com)A dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide and weighing 2,000 tons began burning about two months ago and continues to smolder.
Agribusiness Boom Brings Change to the Amazon
An agribusiness boom is turning millions of acres of Amazon rainforest into a tropical version of Kansas.
Canada Confirms Second Mad Cow Case
A final laboratory test has confirmed an Alberta dairy cow had mad cow disease, the second case Canada has found in its herd, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Sunday.
Originally from Reuters