It s the busiest time of year for beet growers, sugar factory employees, some truck drivers and believe it or not a few sanitation workers. As part of its early harvest, Amalgamated invited select growers to transport beets to dozens of satellite collection stations throughout Magic Valley. We ve got to not only deliver equipment but develop a routing system for servicing each collection site twice a week, said Les Reitz, sales manager at PSI. Amalgamated, this area s only sugar beet...

This deadline applies to the following perennial crops: apples, grapes, blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, honey, maple sap and many other crops that are not coverable under the Federal Crop Insurance program. Eligible production losses are paid at 55 percent of the established value for the crop. Losses are generally determined by the percentage of loss compared to the producer s actual yield history. Producers receive a payment when the loss is in excess...

Guelph, Canada December 1, 2006 Genetically modified crops can produce food with superior qualities, but they may also pose food-safety risks if they mix with other crops, says a University of Guelph plant agriculture professor. As pharmaceutical and industrial traits are introduced into crop plants, there will in some cases be a greater risk that Canadians will be directly affected by gene flow from crop to crop, said Rene Van Acker, chair of the Department of Plant Agriculture, whose...

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With harvest under way and the parish's weekend-long orange festival set to begin Friday, farmers like Becnel, with navel oranges and satsuma mandarins to sell, are trying to fill strong demand, while older producers such as 73-year-old Gerald Ragas are struggling to start over. With harvest under way and the parish's weekend-long orange festival set to begin Friday, farmers like Becnel, with navel oranges and satsuma mandarins to sell, are trying to fill strong demand, while older...

The decision, which will result in the first outdoor experiment of GM crops for three years, has been criticised by Friends of the Earth because of the risk of contamination of the food chain and the lack of need or demand for the product. Although BASF plan to destroy the crops at end of the trials to attempt to prevent them entering the food chain, the experience of GM rice in the USA, where an experimental GM rice line has contaminated worldwide rice supplies, shows that these...

Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in west Africa, is banking on the transgenic culture to increase output and lower production costs as it battles to weather the effects of the falling prices of the so-called white gold on the international market. Producers hope transgenic cotton will lead to a 30 percent increase in production per hectare and a reduction in the use of costly insecticides, Celestin Tiendrebeogo, director of the government-owned ginnery Burkina Fibers and Textiles...

Nearly two tonnes of genetically modified corn seed from the United States cleared border control after a paperwork bungle. An urgent inquiry is underway but MAF warns that no border dragnet is completely secure and the risk of GM-material entering the country remains. The corn seed error was picked up by staff after conflicting documents showed it had been modified. Farmers who have planted the seeds are now looking for compensation. MAF says that while the seeds have been planted on...