Citrus growers span globe in hunt to contain citrus disease. The Brazil trip is looking at various methods that country's orange growers use to manage greening, according to Farr and other participants who left about a week ago. There he met a team of Vietnamese and Australian researchers who indicated initial success in keeping psyllids out of a citrus grove by planting guava trees. That includes surveying groves for the disease; controlling psyllids, insect hosts for the greening...

But ever since filing the report, Bentley says he's been banned from the area, where he's been placing his bees since the early 1980s, by citrus farmers. In February, the beekeeper reported to state regulators that thousands of his honeybees had died that month after the pesticide Lorsban was sprayed in a Sebring citrus grove. His bees were in their man-made hives across a canal from The Great Fruit co. grove, but a cloud of poison drifted from the fruit trees and onto his insects. The...

Why is it connected to agriculture? Because fireworks are illegal in Florida - except that they can be purchased for agricultural purposes, generally for scaring away birds and wildlife that might harm crops. There is a bill dealing with pesticides, citrus, forestry and tomato inspections in Tallahassee that has already passed the Senate unanimously and will almost certainly be given a warm reception by the House. In 2005, a Pinellas County commissioner complained, "What's the point of...

Margaret Munro , CanWest News Service Published:Sunday, April 29, 2007 VANCOUVER Close to 200 tonnes of a genetically modified seed, which is not allowed anywhere near Canadian dinner tables or farm fields, is sitting at a Chilean port waiting to be loaded onto a ship for Vancouver. Margaret Munro , CanWest News Service Published:Sunday, April 29, 2007 VANCOUVER Close to 200 tonnes of a genetically modified seed, which is not allowed anywhere near Canadian dinner tables or farm fields, is...

Atlanta - A salmonella outbreak that has slowly grown to nearly 300 cases in 39 states since August has been linked to tainted peanut butter, federal health officials said Wednesday. It was only in the past few days that investigators were able to hone in on a particular food, Lynch said. If consumers have this product, they should discard it, but save the product lid. About 20 percent of the 288 infected people have been hospitalized, but none has died, said Dr. The company will cease...