LIVESTOCK keepers here have responded massively to the drive to vaccinate their animals against Rift Valley Fever (RVF) which has killed nearly 50 people and left more than a hundred others admitted to health facilities around the region. The exercise has slowed in Mpwapwa District where a small stock remains and had stopped in the five districts for vaccine shortage. Cattle herders rush to jab animals. The Dodoma government abattoir, with capacity to handle 200 head of cattle a day...

There's a plan afoot to eradicate the white fallow deer in Point Reyes -- but could there be another way to keep rangers, ranchers, animal lovers, Hindus and venison diners on the same side? As I wound my way northwest along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, passing reflective yellow deer-crossing signs and taking in the supernaturally green hills of West Marin County, the mist thickened, and I began to fear that one of those unicorns might bound right into my car's path. As I wound my way...

In a society where many people are 2-3 generations removed from the farm, getting farmers and their non-farming neighbors to re-connect and talk to one another again is one of the primary missions of Aaron Putze and the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers (CSIF) In a society where many people are 2-3 generations removed from the farm, getting farmers and their non-farming neighbors to re-connect and talk to one another again is one of the primary missions of Aaron Putze and the Coalition...

Our cows make 27,800 pounds of milk each year and it's imperative they get enough corn in their diet so the milk production won't drop off, he said. Mark Stephenson, a Cornell University senior extension associate with dairy markets and policy, reports that some farmers looking to cut costs as corn and soybeans become harder to obtain are supplementing their feed with brewers or distiller's grain, a high-energy byproduct of corn. Mark Stephenson, a Cornell University senior extension...

Chvez dressed down the foreign owners of the steel maker Siderrgica del Orinoco over the weekend, asking them to halt exports and focus on meeting domestic demand. Chvez had threatened on Thursday to nationalize Sidor, and to take over the banking system unless banks agreed to offer low-cost financing to domestic industry. The main index of the Caracas stock exchange fell 2.7 percent on Friday, while Venezuelas currency, the bolvar, also weakened about 3 percent, to 3,950 to the dollar in...