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03/11/2010 03:20 AM

Plant hormones found to increase cotton yields during drought conditions

Scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have found that a naturally occurring class of plant hormones called cytokinins has been found to help increase cotton yields during drought conditions.

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03/11/2010 07:39 AM

Bulgaria Agriculture Minister Sends Predecessor To Prosecutor

Bulgaria#039;s former Agriculture Minister, Hihat Kabil, could face criminal charges for his alleged participation in a scheme to drain BGN 1,5 M. Photo by BGNES

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03/11/2010 07:02 AM

Florida Weather Hits St. Louis Veggie Prices

Freezing temperatures that engulfed Florida in January are heating up produce prices for some St. Louis-area businesses. Florida tomatoes, for example, are in short supply because the weather dented ...

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03/11/2010 06:52 AM

Dorman Grace Kicks Of Alabama Agriculture Race

Jasper farmer Dorman Grace has been traveling the state this week to kick off his Republican campaign for state agriculture commissioner.

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03/11/2010 06:48 AM

Japan, Brazil To Jointly Help Mozambique Develop Agriculture+

Mozambique#039;s tropical savanna is as wide as 550,000 square kilometers, or 1.4 times larger than Japan#039;s land area, and has soil and weather conditions similar to those of Brazil#039;s cerrado, or quot;inacc...

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03/11/2010 06:00 AM

Scientists Launch Drive To Boost Food Production

The Global Food Security programme seeks to ensure the world#039;s growing population has access to a sustainable and secure food supply. The main UK public funders of food-related research and training w...

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03/11/2010 04:34 AM

Eu Warns Of Low Incomes And Abandoned Land Under Cap Reform

Steep falls in farm incomes, more intensive farming and land abandonment on a significant scale are on the cards if direct payments to farmers are cut following the next

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03/11/2010 04:33 AM

Uk Report On Lost Or Declining Species

England#039;s Lost and Threatened Species identifies nearly 500 animals and plants that have become extinct in England ndash; almost all within the last two centuries. Almost 1000 native species have been gi...

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03/11/2010 04:33 AM

Politicians Need To Do More To Promote Farming Careers, Says Lantra

Lantra the sector skills council for the land-based sector, is meeting all three men when they visit Yorkshire. Mr Longthorp, who is also the driving force behind the industry#039;s

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03/11/2010 04:33 AM

New Beet Contract Offers Longer-term Certainty To Growers

NFU and British Sugar agreed a new four-year contract last month that both sides believe is the breakthrough the sector desperately needs, burying the past and opening up an exciting future.

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Plant hormones found to increase cotton yields during drought conditions

Bulgaria Agriculture Minister Sends Predecessor To Prosecutor

Florida Weather Hits St. Louis Veggie Prices

Dorman Grace Kicks Of Alabama Agriculture Race

Japan, Brazil To Jointly Help Mozambique Develop Agriculture+

Scientists Launch Drive To Boost Food Production

Eu Warns Of Low Incomes And Abandoned Land Under Cap Reform

Uk Report On Lost Or Declining Species

Politicians Need To Do More To Promote Farming Careers, Says Lantra

New Beet Contract Offers Longer-term Certainty To Growers