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The U.S. Forest Service in cooperation with the Southern Group of State Foresters has begun a two-year project that will forecast the future of forests on public and private lands.
There's been some recent talk by prominent lawmakers about the possibility of letting the current farm bill expire and letting the underlying 1949 farm law kick back in. Just last week, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Colin Peterson suggested a return to the 1949 law might not be the worst thing in the world.
President George W. Bush opposes raising taxes to pay for increases in several programs in the new U.S. farm law, the top U.S. agriculture official said on Wednesday, as he underscored crafting a new farm bill as his top priority while in office.
TORRANCE, Calif. -- Amid fresh signs of weakness in the U.S. economy, President Bush urged lawmakers to act rapidly to boost flagging economic growth.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Bush also highlighted expanded trade as a prescription for the nation's economic woes and stressed the need to help workers hurt by global competition.
WASHINGTON - Congress is unlikely to pass a free trade deal with Colombia this year, or two other pending agreements with South Korea and Panama, despite White House pressure, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Tyson Foods Inc. said in federal district court that it is revamping the advertising of its antibiotic-free chicken products, after competitors had alleged false and misleading advertising by the company.
In court filings, the company brushed off competitors' allegations and said it had already independently changed the advertising.
Tyson Foods Inc. said in federal district court that it is revamping the advertising of its antibiotic-free chicken products, after competitors had alleged false and misleading advertising by the company.
In court filings, the company brushed off competitors' allegations and said it had already independently changed the advertising.
National Farmers Union President Tom Buis is willing to see farm policy revert back to 1949 law rather than have Congress extend the current farm programs if a deal cannot be reached on a new farm bill.
Remember these prices: $4.12 1/2 per bushel for corn; $8.32 per bushel for wheat.
Under economic conditions of late 2007, those would be the new loan rates if Congress and the Bush administration can't agree on a farm bill, Congress doesn't extend the 2002 bill, and farm programs revert to permanent laws passed in 1938 and 1949.
Rising food costs already are squeezing international hunger relief efforts. Add a new potential problem: the U.S. farm bill.
The Bush administration and the United Nations' World Food Program say provisions in both the House and Senate versions of a new farm bill could slash the amount of money available to the United Nations for famine relief.
Dr. Ian Friedland was sitting at his Mountain View office on a rainy October afternoon when the telephone rang with some long-awaited news: The Food and Drug Administration had just approved doripenem, the powerful antibiotic he had labored over since 2004.
Consumer advocates have been campaigning for years to curb the use of antibiotics in agriculture, citing studies that show that 70 percent of all U.S. antibiotics are administered in low doses - not to treat disease, but to promote the growth of pigs, sheep, chicken and cattle.
WATER USE EQUIVALENTS--Scott Ross, water commissioner at the Stockton field office of the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, tells attendees that with current technology, a 50 million gallon ethanol plant might use about 614 acre-feet of water a year.
Like arrows hitting their mark, power-filled packets of sunlight collide with pigment molecules inside a leaf, setting them abuzz with energy. Funneled by a tag team of subatomic particles, the energy converges on a central point until there's enough to drive the construction of special molecules that serve as the AAA batteries of the vegetable world.
A self-destructing palm tree that flowers once every 100 years and then dies has been discovered on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, botanists said Thursday.
The name of the giant palm and its remarkable life cycle will be detailed in a study by Kew Gardens scientists in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society published Thursday.
Deforestation of the Amazon has surged in recent months and is likely to rise in 2008 for the first time in four years, a senior Brazilian government scientist said on Wednesday.
Canada's forest is emerging as an immense - truly immense - national and international player.
The broad swath of often-scruffy timberland stretching from the Yukon to Labrador is one of largest stores of carbon on Earth, making it key to global warming and climate change.
The key components to Jim Birkemeier's forestry and wood flooring operation include not only the way the wood is harvested, but the way in which it is prepared for milling.
The 200 acres of woodland on the farm his parents bought in 1973 include eight miles of trails that provide access to the trees.