Citrus growers span globe in hunt to contain citrus disease. The Brazil trip is looking at various methods that country's orange growers use to manage greening, according to Farr and other participants who left about a week ago. There he met a team of Vietnamese and Australian researchers who indicated initial success in keeping psyllids out of a citrus grove by planting guava trees. That includes surveying groves for the disease; controlling psyllids, insect hosts for the greening...

But ever since filing the report, Bentley says he's been banned from the area, where he's been placing his bees since the early 1980s, by citrus farmers. In February, the beekeeper reported to state regulators that thousands of his honeybees had died that month after the pesticide Lorsban was sprayed in a Sebring citrus grove. His bees were in their man-made hives across a canal from The Great Fruit co. grove, but a cloud of poison drifted from the fruit trees and onto his insects. The...

Why is it connected to agriculture? Because fireworks are illegal in Florida - except that they can be purchased for agricultural purposes, generally for scaring away birds and wildlife that might harm crops. There is a bill dealing with pesticides, citrus, forestry and tomato inspections in Tallahassee that has already passed the Senate unanimously and will almost certainly be given a warm reception by the House. In 2005, a Pinellas County commissioner complained, "What's the point of...

Margaret Munro , CanWest News Service Published:Sunday, April 29, 2007 VANCOUVER Close to 200 tonnes of a genetically modified seed, which is not allowed anywhere near Canadian dinner tables or farm fields, is sitting at a Chilean port waiting to be loaded onto a ship for Vancouver. Margaret Munro , CanWest News Service Published:Sunday, April 29, 2007 VANCOUVER Close to 200 tonnes of a genetically modified seed, which is not allowed anywhere near Canadian dinner tables or farm fields, is...

Atlanta - A salmonella outbreak that has slowly grown to nearly 300 cases in 39 states since August has been linked to tainted peanut butter, federal health officials said Wednesday. It was only in the past few days that investigators were able to hone in on a particular food, Lynch said. If consumers have this product, they should discard it, but save the product lid. About 20 percent of the 288 infected people have been hospitalized, but none has died, said Dr. The company will cease...

Unless people know what products Monsanto has on the grocery store shelf, how will you boycott? The farmers can boycott because they will be buying seeds. FC: Lee Quarles, a Monsanto spokesperson, said that through its work in seed genetics and biotechnology both of which are scale neutral whether a farmer plants one acre, half an acre or 10,000 acres, that farmer will net the same benefit. We must have land of our own from which we can produce the food and create the circumstances that...

Before a product can be labeled organic, a USDA certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to verify the farmer is following rules to meet organic standards. Among the requirements needed to qualify food as organic are whether it was produced by conserving soil and water and without using antibiotics or growth hormones. QAre there established criteria to be met for a food product to be labeled organic ? AYes. Companies that handle or process organic food must be certified, said...

Smartcool s energy savings technology receives further endorsement from Coast Citrus Distributors SmartCool Systems inc. is pleased to announce that Smartcool Systems USA inc., a wholly owned subsidiary has received an order for its Energy Savings Module technology from Coast Tropical, a division of Coast Citrus Distributors based in San Diego, California. Smartcool s energy savings technology receives further endorsement from Coast Citrus Distributors SmartCool Systems inc. is pleased to...

Any peanut butter matching the recall, regardless of the date, can be returned to the place of purchase, or customers can send the lid to ConAgra for a refund. FDA extends tainted peanut butter recall. At that time the recall applied to all peanut butter made since December 2005. WASHINGTON -- ConAgra Foods inc. has extended its recall of all peanut butter produced at a plant in Georgia by more than a year, back to October 2004, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The recall...