Lawmakers will soon consider whether to insure crops that could serve as important sources of alternative fuels, but there are a lot of unanswered questions. It can take farmers years to determine whether a crop is viable. At a congressional hearing earlier this week, lawmakers heard about potential crops like camelina, a weed that's being looked at as an alternative source of energy. Lawmakers will soon consider whether to insure crops that could serve as important sources of alternative...

All state and private schools participate in the programme, which includes an interactive lecture on the importance of agriculture and our environment, and a tour around the farm. The protected tree and plant section includes samples of most of our endangered trees and wild plants, such as the Gharghar tree (the national tree), znuber (aleppo pine), rihan (myrtle), Guda's tree, Widnet il-bahar (Maltese rock-centaury), sempreviva (Maltese everlasting) and many others. Students on farming...

Hard freezes in California, Florida and other states are one contributor to the run up in prices, especially for produce, but that's easing as farmers plant new vegetable crops to replace what was damaged. It is happening for many reasons: inflation, drought, freezing weather, even the rising cost of corn -- highly sought after not only as ingredients for thousands of food products, but also to make ethanol. Prices are going up for much of what gets dumped into the grocery cart --...

Not all farmers need disaster aid and not all farmers use the system but those few that do sure do cause a bad name for the majority. Something obvisously is wrong, what to you think that is ? Earlier you said something to the effect that you don't know why some people even bother farming, I really don't know either, why bother? Working that hard and falling behind must be depressing, a $1000. So long as we are all farming the program and not producing something the consumer wants it will...

Lamb prices have remained low throughout 2007 and the introduction of spring lamb in recent weeks has failed to make any difference in the marketplace. News Wales > Agriculture > Fears for Wales sheep farming. However, all this is of no benefit to producers unless we are paid a price for our lamb that covers our costs and allows us to invest in our futures, sadly this is not the case at present. Low prices coupled with a 33% cut to LFA payments in March 2007 have knocked confidence in the...