High prices are not crimping demand; partly because prices of other commodities have been rising equally rapidly, limiting the scope for substitution, but more importantly because of China s hugely growing raw material needs, with all its demand indicators running at double-digit growth-rates. High prices are not crimping demand; partly because prices of other commodities have been rising equally rapidly, limiting the scope for substitution, but more importantly because of China s hugely...

Last year, Mexican companies bought $207 million in food and agricultural products from Washington, including $128 million in apples. Washington state will suffer," Gregoire said, adding that a shortage of workers last year forced apple growers to leave part of their crop on their trees. Washington governor visits Mexico to promote businesses, products. She said her state's agricultural industry would greatly benefit from an immigration reform bill. Congress' failure to approve an...

By combining genes that control different traits into one plant, the companies can produce more productive plants in a shorter time than they could have on their own. They could have discovered that the two companies had been researching the same genes responsible for trait formation -- after all, the companies have been working for years at discovering traits for producing bigger, stronger, and more productive plants. Instead, it appears that their libraries are quite different -- there...

The ministry said it would intensify nationwide monitoring of quality of farm products in production bases, wholesale markets, agricultural trading markets and supermarkets. However, malachite green, a synthetic dye used to treat fungal infections on fish eggs and which is considered dangerous for humans, was found in some aquiculture products, the ministry said. Just a few days before Tuesday's Dragon Boat Festival, a company in central Anhui Province was caught repackaging for sale more...

It may have been a coincidence, but several weeks earlier a number of local TV channels had carried stories about a robot-building competition involving Indonesian students, with the robots being designed to perform specific tasks, such as extinguishing fires, etc. It may have been a coincidence, but several weeks earlier a number of local TV channels had carried stories about a robot-building competition involving Indonesian students, with the robots being designed to perform specific...

Here s a quote from a page on AFF s web site explaining their goals: To explain the contributions of free market capitalism and advanced technology to the world food supply and its importance in increasing food availability not only to all Americans, but to poor populations in the developing world. It s an organization that preaches the most unreconstructed form of free enterprise - keep the government the hell out of the way and let the industry fend for itself. Here s a quote from a page...

The LCF holds seminars and conducts presentations in Alberta on the merits of farming in the province. They offera land listing which allows producers in the area to post their land up for sale on a website. Andrews says they are now expanding their recruiting into Ontario to try and tap into that resource. Attractive Farming In Saskatchewan. Tuesday, 17 July 2007 The Last Cattler Frontier has been trying to attract Alberta ranchers to East Central Saskatchewan for the past seven years....

Farmers used to get subsidies for growing more grain than Europeans could eat and, eventually, a hue and cry over mountains of unsold grain prompted even more curious market manipulation. Set-aside, paying farmers a fee to leave land fallow, is more fuel to urban rage against rural dependence, but the market is again upsetting the schemers and planners. In the UK, set-aside has been a huge administrative rigmarole, in which farmers had to ensure they had set aside a precise number of...

The latter characterization, offered by grain-handling executive Pat Ptacek, is likely to attract plenty of attention from those who farmed through a seed-industry debacle that began in the 1990s and eventually resulted in corn producers collecting more than $100 million in damages. The latter characterization, offered by grain-handling executive Pat Ptacek, is likely to attract plenty of attention from those who farmed through a seed-industry debacle that began in the 1990s and eventually...