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Okada: Food Sufficiency, Free Trade Not Incompatible

Tokyo/Reuters Katsuya Okada, the No. 2 executive in Japan’s main opposition Democratic Party, said on Monday that boosting Japan’s food self-sufficiency and pursuing free trade are not incompatible. “It is not a choice of one or the other,” Okada, the Democrats’ secretary-general, said in an interview with Reuters. “Other developed countries such as the EU
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In Brief… – for Aug. 6, 2009

El Nińo coming: Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology says an El Nińo weather system in the Pacific Ocean would be established by September-November at the latest. The bureau said there was now agreement between international weather models that an El Nińo, which can bring drought conditions to Australia and weaken Asian monsoons, would be established by
Hogs, Livestock

U. S. Hog Industry Struggling

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Summer is usually a profitable time for America’s hog producers but this year swine flu, recession and high feed prices have even the largest farmers operating deep in the red and some smaller ones on the brink of bankruptcy. Before things get better, the weakest are expected to fail and even those who survive will
Country Crossroads

Recession, Health Concerns Get Americans Gardening

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Alison Baum of San Antonio, Texas hopes to save money and eat better by getting her hands dirty. She is joining the swelling ranks of Americans who have started backyard fruit and vegetable gardening, a trend rooted in a desire to cut costs as the recession bites, fears about the safety of commercial food supplies
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Plant Breeder Hopes African Development Takes Root

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For Gebisa Ejeta, it was not enough that he developed new varieties of a food staple crop that resisted droughts and a devastating weed that sucked the life out of cereal crops in his native Ethiopia. Ejeta, who was awarded the 2009 World Food Prize on Thursday, was really driven to get the seeds he
Hogs, Livestock

USDA Starts Surveillance Of Pigs For Flu

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The U. S. Agriculture Department will soon launch a pilot surveillance project to look for new strains of flu virus in pigs, including the new strain of H1N1 flu, chief veterinarian John Clifford said June 2. The program will examine samples from sick pigs voluntarily submitted to government and private labs, as well as any
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Jun. 11, 2009

Frosty June: Frost has damaged newly emerged canola on the western Prairies, adding to a long list of spring weather woes. The only factor mitigating damage from frost June 2 is that crops have been slow to emerge due to cool weather, said Bruce Burnett, director of weather and market analysis for the Canadian Wheat
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Hyundai Heavy Buys Russian Farm

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries has acquired a farm in the Russian Far East, a purchase that could test the water for further Asian investment in Russia’s burgeoning agriculture sector. Hyundai Heavy, also the world’s largest shipbuilder, has agreed to pay $6.5 million for a 67.6 per cent stake in Khorol Zerno LLC, which operates
Hogs, Livestock

U. S. Hog Reduction Effort Floated

Asmall group of U. S. hog producers has devised an industry-financed plan to reduce the domestic hog herd as a means of restoring profits to an industry that has been losing money since late 2007. Called the Producer Retirement Program, the goal is to collect $50 million to $60 million, which would then be used
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Africa Not Benefiting From Foreign Land Deals

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Africa is giving vast tracts of farmland to rich nations looking to feed their own people without ensuring those on the world’s hungriest continent benefit, the African Union (AU) said April 28. Countries in Asia and the Gulf that are mainly reliant on food imports have been increasingly seeking land in the developing world to

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