Arroyo Colorado steering committee meets July 22 in Weslaco
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
Arroyo Colorado steering committee meets July 22 in Weslaco WESLACO — The Arroyo Colorado Watershed Partnership steering committee will meet July 22 in Weslaco to discuss efforts to implement the Arroyo Colorado Watershed Protection Plan and to sustain the partnership, according to an official with the Texas Water Resources Institute. Watershed coordinator Jaime Flores said [...]
Hill Country ‘vines and wines’ overview to be offered Aug. 12
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
Hill Country ‘vines and wines’ overview to be offered Aug. 12 Extension program in San Antonio ‘snapshot’ of area wine industry SAN ANTONIO – An introduction to the Texas wine-grape and wine industry will be the focus of the upcoming “Vines and Wines of the Texas Hill Country†presentation by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. [...]
Cattle and wheat topics of July 24 conference in Wichita Falls
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
Cattle and wheat topics of July 24 conference in Wichita Falls WICHITA FALLS – After the recent wheat harvest, more wheat and stocker cattle producers may want to attend the Cattle Trails Stocker Conference to be held July 24 at the Multi-Purpose Event Center, 1000 5th Street, in Wichita Falls. This conference is a [...]
Assessing The Impact of Farmers’ Health
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
Manitoba farmers keep Canadians and the world fed and healthy, but what will keep aging farmers strong and healthy in a physically demanding, high risk occupation? A new survey by the department of occupational therapy at the University of Manitoba is hoping to answer that question by understanding the impact of illness or [...]
New $46m Poultry Plant to Serve Farmers In N.S., P.E.I.
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
KENTVILLE, N.S. – A $46-million poultry processing plant is planned for the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. The Kentville plant will be jointly owned by Maple Lodge Farms and farmers from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Maple Lodge chief executive Michael Burrows says the operation will ensure the long-term viability of the [...]
Scientist leading GM crop test defends links to US biotech giant Monsanto
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
Anti-GM campaigners say a trial to genetically protect potatoes against blight is a waste of taxpayers’ money because a naturally produced strain already gives immunity. Photograph: Alamy The scientist in charge of a taxpayer-funded trial that may determine whether genetically modified crops will be grown in the UK has been [...]
Response: The CAP is our best hope of protecting biodiversity in the countryside | Mark Avery
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
The RSPB, alongside a Swedish accordion club and a Danish billiards club, is one of the groups highlighted in your editorial as recipients of payments through the common agricultural policy (CAP) (Rotten but here to stay, 5 July). But while the piece features some of the unusual recipients of [...]
Letters: Reasons to keep Europe’s CAP
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
The assumption that the common agricultural policy (CAP) is a wasteful boondoggle (Rotten but here to stay, 5 July) is at best misguided and at worst misleading. This week, as the European parliament votes on CAP reform post-2013, it is clear that MEPs are coming to a consensus on [...]
Pesticide threat looms over French West Indies
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
Sorting and washing bananas in Martinique, where chlordecone was used to combat the banana weevil. Photograph: Jean-Daniel Sudres/Corbis France is once again embroiled in a health and safety scandal. For 20 years, from 1973 to 1993, the insecticide chlordecone (Kepone) was used in Martinique and Guadeloupe, in the French West [...]
British pressure for GM crops unwelcome in Europe
July 18, 2010 by cachlanhuong
While the British government says GM crops are essential as the world’s population grows, they have been banned in Germany Britain is one of Europe’s most vigorous cheerleaders for the expansion of GM crops. Along with Spain and the Netherlands it has lobbied the European commission to overturn the 12-year [...]
