GE Free NZ (in food and environment) believes this potentially disastrous decision signals that it is time for New Zealand to establish its own laboratories and set protocols for testing novel foods. It is increasingly urgent as more GM foods like MON 863 and high-lysine corn (designed for animal-feed) are authorised to enter the human food-chain. MON 863 and rejected them, instead concluding the corn is safe for entry into the food chain. In the absence of New Zealand having any...

Nationally, more than 36 million acres are enrolled in the voluntary Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers annual rent to take their land out of production. As state and federal officials scramble to find seeds to replant rangelands burned by wildfires in recent weeks, a super shrub that turns charred lands into food preserves for livestock and wildlife flourishes on Bob Adams' Box Elder County ranch. Lands held in reserve, dubbed grass banks, also can be used for grazing...

Supreme contributes about 75% of the group's revenue and produces 1,1-million chickens a week, but it has capacity to produce 1,35-million chickens a week. The company's Supreme division, which is the third-largest poultry producer in SA, has capacity to grow 15%-18% before additional investment is required, says James. The company, which listed on the JSE in May, said recently that demand for protein was strong, and that it was confident the growth trend would continue. Country Bird,...

Still, corn acreage here is up about 10 percent over last year, with farmers planting some 4 million acres, largely at the expense of soybeans. National critics like Lester Brown have even warned the stage is set for "a head-on collision between the world's 800 million affluent automobile owners and food consumers. The group said higher energy prices are increasing the cost of everything from food processing to packaging and transportation. Strong demand for dairy products and a persistent...

This year's drought has yet to deplete reservoirs that supply public drinking water, but it has hit farmers particularly hard during their peak growing season. Then, at the tail-end of four dry years, the state's combined agricultural losses from drought were about $398 million, according to N. That has forced Langdon and other cattle farmers to feed their cows hay they just harvested. Ryan Boyles, state climatologist, said drought-related agricultural losses this year could match or...

Organic selenium is more digestible than inorganic forms and better retained, which lets the animal build nutrient reserves against periods of increased demand without risking toxicity. This nutrient supports a healthy reproductive system, meat quality, and shelf life for beef products. Sel-Plex is an organic form of selenium yeast, as it is presented in the same forms that are naturally present in plants. Selenium plays an important role in beef cattle diets. FDA approves selenium...

As more land is dedicated to corn production, there are fewer acres on which to grow hay products and soybeans used to feed dairy cattle. Globally: * A severe prolonged drought in Oceania, Australia, a major exporter of dairy products, has affected farmers' ability there to grow crops and export dairy products. The reforms are mainly a result of a decision by the EU dairy management committee to revoke subsidies on all exported dairy products, a move that has slowed milk production by EU...

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Pastures and hay crops in the area, already heavily damaged by a late freeze, have continued in terrible condition through dry weather -- a problem from Kansas and Missouri east to the Carolinas and Maryland, the second year of crisis for much of the south. Bucking a trend that has seen dairies become almost as scarce as ski lifts on the Illinois landscape, three area cow men have done their part to help stem a 30-year decline in the livestock industry in Illinois. Pastures and hay crops...