Israel to share agricultural know-how with struggling African farmers
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Israel is getting ready to share technology and skills with African countries struggling to sustain agricultural output due to increasingly unreliable rains, said Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon. Simhon said sharing know-how, especially in irrigation and water management, was his focus on a tour of Senegal, Ivory Coast and Gabon. His trip comes as some 10 million people in West and Central Africa face food shortages due to failed rains. "We are not arriving here in Africa to take resources from the African countries. We are coming here in order to give know-how and abilities to these countries to develop," Simhon...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 04:11:39 AM
Trade war with Mexico could devastate Washington state growers
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WASHINGTON -- The long-simmering dispute over allowing Mexican trucks onto U.S. highways is escalating into a trade war that could cost Washington state agricultural interests millions of dollars in lost sales and present the Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress with an early test of their trade policies. Washington's pear, cherry, apricot and Christmas tree growers find themselves in the middle of a trade clash not of their own making and facing 20 percent tariffs on their exports to Mexico. The biggest impact, however, could be on the state's potato growers and processors. Mexico buys $83 million worth of frozen...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 04:11:39 AM
Agricultural Experts Plant Seeds in Kirkuk
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FOB WARRIOR — The food that finds its way on to the tables of Kirkuk City residents has to start somewhere. Researchers from Team Borlaug wanted to see where the journey began, and they found some of those origins at one of the city’s animal processing plants and markets, March 18. Team Borlaug is taking a nearly six-month tour of northern Iraq to study the agriculture and offer guidance on how it can be improved. “Our mission is to assess agriculture in Multi-National Division – North’s area and provide recommendations to the command regarding project development and how to get...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 04:11:39 AM
U.S. Agricultural Team Vaccinates Chicks
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Charles Russell, a member of the U.S. State Department Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team and an agricultural advisor, sprays 21-day-old chicks with a vaccine to prevent Gambaro disease, which attacks a chick's immune system, at the Poultry Agkardi Hatchery during an EPRT event in Mahmudiyah, Feb. 27. Photo by Jamie Vernon, 1st Armored Division Public Affairs. MAHMUDIYAH — The U.S. State Department’s Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team (EPRT) participated in a project inoculating and delivering chickens to the Mahmudiyah Poultry Association, Feb. 27. Charles Russell, an agricultural advisor for the EPRT, traveled to the Poultry Agkardi Hatchery here to assist local Iraqi...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 04:11:39 AM
OLBERMANN'S PLASTIC IVY
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Fortunately, we have Keith Olbermann to point out that Rush Limbaugh did not accurately quote the preamble to the Constitution in his CPAC speech last weekend. I'm not sure what scam Olbermann imagined Rush was trying to put over on the American people by saying conservatives believed in the "preamble to the Constitution" and then quoting words from the Declaration of Independence -- but Olbermann put an end to that cruel deception! These small-time opportunities to show off by correcting someone else's teeny-tiny mistakes are the lifeblood of Olbermann's MSNBC show, "Countdown." Olbermann is no more capable of not correcting...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 04:11:39 AM
Missouri Guard's Agricultural Mission Grows in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2008 – Missouri National Guard soldiers are overcoming one of the biggest hurdles on Afghanistan’s road toward self-sustainment, one of the state’s U.S. senators said here yesterday. Missouri U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond and Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn, director of the Army National Guard, answer questions from the media during a Dec. 22, 2008, news conference in Bond’s Washington, D.C., office. Bond recently returned from Afghanistan, where he saw the work of Missouri Guard agriculture development teams. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Sen. Christopher Bond discussed the Missouri...
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New Agricultural Center Opens in Safwan
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SAFWAN — A newly renovated agricultural center in Safwan, a town in southern Iraq’s Basrah province, was dedicated Dec. 7. Members of the Safwan Agricultural Society Board, the Agricultural Society president and Coalition representatives were on hand for the celebration. The newly renovated facility, seeds, tractors, generators, greenhouse kits and plastic sheathing were part of the $1.5 million investment the Coalition made to get the community’s economy back on its feet. “This project has jumpstarted the agro-business for farmers,” said Sgt. Adam Kirschner, project management officer for the agricultural center. “With 50 percent of the local population in the business,...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 04:11:39 AM
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