STATE'S ACTION ON PESTICIDE ABUSE BLASTED AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT DRAWS THE...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ......the EPA's recommendation that the Agriculture Department should retain authority to enforce...herbicides in the state. 1 R The state Agriculture Department responds too slowly to pesticide...around the state, or work with the Agriculture Department on joint inspections, the review...

Seasonal Decline in Canadian Hog Prices Seen In Last Half 2001.

Resource News International;  August 17, 2001 ;     374 words ...WINNIPEG, MB, Aug 17, 2001 The firm hog prices producers in Manitoba and across Canada have been enjoying...decline, according to a livestock analyst with Manitoba's Agriculture Department. Strong North American consumer demand for meat combined...the chances of a price war that helped to keep ...

Hog prices rise; nation's herd quickly follows suit; Producers show a lack...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ......to a modest improvement in hog prices, according to the government...Although the United States' hog numbers on Sept. 1 were 2 percent...quarter, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported this month. Compared...hogs for market. The market hog inventory, however, was still...preliminary ...

U.S. Agriculture Department still won't specify reasons for new mad cow...

AP Worldstream;  June 15, 2005 ;     227 words ......06-15-2005 Dateline: WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department's inspector general offered scant...released until late summer. The Agriculture Department announced Friday it is checking...in Weybridge, England, and the Agriculture Department will conduct further tests. The...

Pennsylvania Agriculture Department Forms Food-Safety Partnership.

PR Newswire;  May 28, 1999 ;     282 words ......signed an agreement authorizing the Agriculture Department to work cooperatively with other...by salmonella enteriditis. The Agriculture Department is committed to ensuring food safety...enteriditis in Pennsylvania eggs. The Agriculture Department currently provides oversight, ...

ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT TO SERVE AT 'TASTE OF...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 16, 2007 ;     266 words ......section of Angelo State University's Agriculture Department have been invited by the Texas...join members of the Texas A&M Agriculture Department and Meat Judging Team. "We look...section," Braden said. "ASU and our Agriculture Department are full of first-class students...

Smithfield not mired by falling hog prices.(Business)

The Virginian Pilot;  April 8, 2005 ;     525 words ......highs and livestock supplies ample, hog prices have been stuck in the mud. But meat...Smithfield. And even when cyclical hog prices begin to retreat in earnest, he said, we do more than grow hogs. Hog prices fell Thursday for the fourth consecutive...

Drought leads Agriculture Department to slash grain, soybean estimates

AP Worldstream;  August 12, 2002 ;     338 words ......Widespread drought has prompted the Agriculture Department to slash its estimated forecasts...lowest production since 1995. The Agriculture Department also lowered its forecast for other...because of the dry weather. The Agriculture Department says cotton production is expected...

EPA Finds Contamination At Agriculture Department's Beltsville Research...

The Washington Post;  May 11, 1993 ;     237 words ......Agency proposed yesterday to add the Agriculture Department's large research center in Beltsville...center is a federal facility, the Agriculture Department, not the $8.5 billion Superfund...Kim Kaplan, speaking for the Agriculture Department, said the listing "means a potential...

Corruption at the Agriculture Department.(Commentary)(Editorials)

The Washington Times;  December 10, 1997 ;     508 words ......investigating corruption in the Agriculture Department under former Secretary Mike Espy...private businesses regulated by the Agriculture Department in exchange for more than $400...farmers get subsidies from the Agriculture Department. He then failed to disclose the...

Wisconsin Agriculture Department Prepares to Build First Ethanol Plant.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 4, 2001 ;     700+ words ......The board chairman of the State Agriculture Department -- an agency that would subsidize...company gets off the ground, the Agriculture Department is writing rules on how it would...groups and top officials of the Agriculture Department encouraged Gov. Scott McCallum...

U.S. Agriculture Department still won't reveal reason for new mad cow...

AP Worldstream;  June 14, 2005 ;     622 words ......Congress asked Monday why the U.S. Agriculture Department suddenly ordered new tests on tissue...came back positive Friday. The Agriculture Department's inspector general suddenly ordered...why it took months to do it. The Agriculture Department has said the animal presented no...

Let us now praise famous hogs.(non-correlation of hog prices with...

Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa);  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......soybean off, petroleum - the plunge in hog prices during the fourth quarter of 1998 was...included. A long-term chart of cash market hog prices taken at Chicago before 1970 and at Omaha...since the end of World War II, real hog prices have been on a downtrend even as the...

Weedkiller pits state agencies against each other DNR opposes chemical...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ......chemical OK'd for corn crops by agriculture department By LEE BERGQUIST lbergquist@journalsentinel...is opposed to a decision by the agriculture department to allow the use of a potent herbicide...regulates water quality, while the agriculture department oversees the use of farm ...

State employee quits over German trip flap Agriculture department veteran...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 9, 1997 ;     300 words ...A veteran state agriculture department spokesman whose computer...Gutknecht had worked for the agriculture department for seven years and...well." Tracy said the agriculture department had not received any...