usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Chicken lady' grows Rivergait Ranch flock Former software saleswoman makes hobby' of chicken business By ABBY FOX-DN Staff Writer Article Last Updated:04/04/2007 08:39:07 AM PDT Click photo to enlarge <Caption> Sue Kolbo with one of her hundreds of roosters. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Chicken lady' grows Rivergait Ranch flock Former software saleswoman makes hobby' of chicken business By ABBY FOX-DN Staff Writer Article Last...

In Pennsylvania, corn slated for ethanol production covers only 1.4 million acres of an agricultural landscape dominated by dairy and livestock farming. Corn demands huge quantities of nitrogen and other nutrients, which has helped to force up fertilizer prices by more than $150 a ton because, even without this year's increased acreage, 45 percent of the country's supply gets spread on cornfields, said Jeff Schneck, sales manager for Cumru Township-based Timac USA. In Berks County, only...

India, which declared itself free of bird flu last August after outbreaks in poultry, has asked officials and poultry farmers in states bordering Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan to monitor any unusual mortality among chickens or ducks. India has around 490 million chickens, the biggest component by far of its poultry industry. New Delhi has increased surveillance for avian influenza after three of its neighbours -- Bangladesh and Myanmar on its east and Pakistan on the west -- reported...

Regional governments in India's northeastern region have sounded an alert by restricting the entry of poultry from Bangladesh and Myanmar after the two countries reported an outbreak of bird flu, officials said on Monday. A general alert has been sounded and steps taken to prevent outbreak of bird flu here," said Narayan Das, director of the animal resource department, Tripura. Bangladesh has culled about 60,000 birds since the outbreak of the H5N1 flu virus was confirmed last week with 16...

Mohammad Afzal, the Commissioner for Livestock at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, says traces of the deadly H5N1 virus were found in small poultry farms in the two areas and as a result all the birds at the farms have been culled and the area disinfected. Mohammad Afzal, the Commissioner for Livestock at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, says traces of the deadly H5N1 virus were found in small poultry farms in the two areas and as a result all the birds at the farms have been...