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Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer is optimistic congressional negotiators will reach a deal within days on new spending for the bill, but that agreement may not come in time to complete a farm bill by March 15.
Bristol Herald Courier, Kingsport Times and Washington County News, April 2008
A new generation of free-standing turbines will liberate hydroelectricity from its dependence on dams
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), one of a few members of the Senate and House involved in negotiations over how much money can be spent on a final version of a farm bill, told reporters Tuesday that he still believes a farm bill can be passed before the current law expires on March 15.
While certainly a setback for the WTO and its supporters, Seattle does not mean that the WTO will stop functioning or that negotiations to expand and extend its rules will not proceed.
Barack Obama, a black politician from Chicago's South Side, may win a larger share of the rural vote for president than Democrats have in past elections. The reason: Republican John McCain's opposition to agricultural interests.
Terry Nennich knew he was onto something as he trekked through the lush flatlands of Normandy, France, in the summer of 1999. The University of Minnesota Extension educator from Crookston had come to study fruit and vegetable practices and stumbled upon horticulture's version of a French revolution. The region's miniature, greenhouselike huts--known as high tunnels--blanketed the countryside.
"The environmental costs of tar sand development are staggering," says a report made public yesterday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington group, in the latest salvo in a pitched public relations battle over western Canada's resource riches.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators will consider updating rules on accounting for oil and gas reserves as early as this summer, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said Thursday.
NEW YORK - North Dakota's Public Service Commission picked an engineering firm to inspect construction work along the eastern North Dakota path of the Keystone crude oil pipeline.
The commission, during a special meeting Wednesday, said it intends to award the job to Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson, a firm that has seven North Dakota offices.
There are two competing explanations for today's high oil prices. One sees the price rise as the result of a temporary imbalance between supply and demand, exacerbated by a weak dollar and a bubble of speculative commodities trading. Fix these problems, adherents suggest, and the price can return to previous low levels, allowing business to continue as usual.
On the sidelines of crude oil price rise, Indian oil majors including Reliance Industries (RIL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Essar Oil are eyeing exploration opportunities at the oil-rich sand beds of Alberta in Canada.
At the heart of forestry is the way people use, manage, and benefit from trees and plants. The next two forestry Internet seminars focus on strategies that forest owners, foresters, and practitioners can use to control undesirable shrubs and trees and to improve the growth of desirable hardwoods.
Together with Twin Cities Public Television, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy co-produced a documentary on horse logging.
The program showcases the environmental and economic value of horse logging and will air on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 7:30 PM On tpt Channel 17 (in Minneapolis, it is on channel 13 with the Comcast Cable system).
You can grow Southern magnolia in Pennsylvania and kiwis in Oklahoma, but you wouldn't know that from the USDA's old hardiness zone map that gardeners use to plan their plantings, as USA Today details. They haven't been updated since 1990, and the past two decades have been marked by increasingly obvious climate changes.
There is mounting evidence that salvage logging of pine beetle-killed stands causes more ecological degradation than leaving them alone, scientist Phil Burton told a forum at UNBC on Tuesday.
Acid rain may seem, like, so 1980s, but the problem has not gone away.
Researchers reported this week that soils throughout the Northeast are continuing to acidify, despite a 50 percent decrease in acid rain since the peak in 1973.
This may be contributing to declines in sugar maples and red spruce in the region, the researchers said.
Citizens here are turning dead lodgepole pines into pencils and pens, log homes, furniture, pellet fuel and more - hoping to make a buck and avert a potential disaster.
Residents fret that millions of beetle- kill pines in the nearby hills and mountains could explode into a fire that destroys their northern Colorado community.