How can you rank the value of living organisms based on the species grouping it belongs to? After all doesn t lettuce have the right to live too? I judge what I eat by how it tastes and how it makes my body feel and I happen to agree with Renae, beef is for dinner. How can you rank the value of living organisms based on the species grouping it belongs to? After all doesn t lettuce have the right to live too? I judge what I eat by how it tastes and how it makes my body feel and I happen to...

It most likely is also genetically engineered so either glyphosate or even other herbicides, sometimes even double engineered, are safe to spray over it to control weeds and not hurt the corn. Although many of the practices that have changed have been put into place to help reduce the inherent risk of farming, there is still considerable risk when you consider each acre planted can have $30 in seed, $60 in fertilizer, $30 in weed control and $5 in insecticides before any expenses are...

GUELPH, ON, April 9 /CNW/ - The Ontario Cattlemen's Association (OCA) thanks the McGuinty government for releasing funds that will help the Ontario processing sector comply with Canada's enhanced feed ban, as announced today by The Honourable Leona Dombrowsky, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. GUELPH, ON, April 9 /CNW/ - The Ontario Cattlemen's Association (OCA) thanks the McGuinty government for releasing funds that will help the Ontario processing sector comply with...

But without rain, or when fuel for the irrigation pumps gets too expensive, the cotton grows short, good for making jeans, perhaps, but not fine shirts. Agriculture is the underlying engine that drives the economy of places like Lubbock, places like Amarillo, all of the smaller towns like Plainview or Lamesa or even hamlets like Lorenzo, says Roger Haldenby, vice president of operations for Plains Cotton Growers inc. in Lubbock. In the long run, this drought signals the beginning of a...

If only he was eyeing a good stand of forage for his cattle. Levels in the state's major lakes as of late January were only at about eight-tenths of capacity, up 6 percent from late December and up 2 percent from the same month last year. The Texas Water Development Board's monthly report monitors 77 lakes that make up 98 percent of the state's stored capacity and that serve scores of municipalities. Under similar conditions last March, raging wildfires burned for days in the Panhandle,...