Four days after she voted against a measure that would have derailed the new subsidy plan, Maloney hosted a fundraising event at Bullfeathers restaurant on Capitol Hill that netted $9,500 in contributions from sugar growers and refiners, according to Federal Election Commission records and Maloney's election attorney, Andrew Tulloch. Four days after she voted against a measure that would have derailed the new subsidy plan, Maloney hosted a fundraising event at Bullfeathers restaurant on...

The largest beet cooperative in the Red River Valley earlier had considered reducing harvested acres by as much as 15 percent, because of high yields. Destroying some beets could help the company avoid processing losses in the spring, with accompanying bad smells and disposal costs. David Berg, Crystal's president and chief executive officer, said staff recently contacted growers to determine how many acres and tons of beets remained to be harvested. Last year, Crystal farmers were asked...

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This is particularly meant to cater for people in dry areas that are not conducive for agricultural production but with a thriving wildlife resource base. Dry areas urged to engage in wildlife farming Business Reporter ZIMBABWEANS in arid and semi-arid areas can benefit from engaging in sustainable wildlife management following the formulation of a wildlife land reform policy. Parks and Wildlife Management Authority public relations manager Retired Major Edward Mbewe told Herald Business...

While welcoming the broad findings in the Competition Commissions recent interim report, the Church argues that a wider debate is urgently needed on the effects of retailers extracting below cost supply agreements from farmers and their effect on a sustainable and flourishing agricultural sector. Making farmers pay for supermarkets own promotions is just one of a number of invisible and pernicious practices squeezing farm-gate prices. While welcoming the broad findings in the Competition...

Wheat requires less irrigation with the zero tillage method Sahar Majid 5 November 2007 Source: SciDev.net An agricultural technique known as 'zero tillage' has reduced the demand for water in rice and wheat farming on almost a million hectares of land in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Wheat requires less irrigation with the zero tillage method Sahar Majid 5 November 2007 Source: SciDev.net An agricultural technique known as 'zero tillage' has reduced the demand for water in rice and...

Three of the GMO products are maize types, two of them hybrids, and the fourth is a sugar beet. Since the EU's six-year unofficial moratorium on approving new GMO products was lifted in 2004, the Commission has authorized a string of GMOs in this way, outraging green groups. The decision is allowed under a legal default process that kicks in when EU ministers cannot agree among themselves after three months. Herculex is designed to protect against larval stages of corn rootworm, which eats...

When wildlife enthusiasts began a corncrake recovery programme in 1993 there were only 470 calling males in the whole of the UK and the species was heading for extinction, said bird protection body RSPB. Hard times for farmers are threatening a "spectacular" recovery in the number of corncrakes in Scotland, experts said. Birds threatened by farming changes. Numbers of the threatened species have fallen in most of western Europe except for Scotland which has more than 1,270 calling males....

But this year, obesity has become a national obsession just as Congress is embarking on one of its periodic overhauls of the nation's farm policy. In response to growing concerns about health, particularly children's health, the new five-year farm bill going before the Senate now provides a record $2 billion for specialty crops, including money to buy fruits and vegetables for school lunches and to assist organic agriculture. A kernel of truth? Nation's obese are corn-fed. The national...