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Knipling added, "Our research has helped reduce the need for pesticides, open new markets for Hawaii-grown fresh produce, and unlock secrets about genes that hold the key to boosting plants' ability to survive drought or resist attack by disease. The US Department of Agriculture opened a new facility on Hawaii to conduct more research on exotic tropical crops. The $19-million, 35,000-square-foot office and laboratory structure is part of the US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center,...

Okie says he thinks there could be a real niche market for the plumcot because one, it ripens pretty early in the season and two, it tastes pretty good. Dick Okie has spent the last four years cropping and breeding the plumcot, a fruit that he says can adapt better to the drought than it's parents and the peach. But there's at least one fruit, actually a mix of two fruits, that could be a more manageable and tasty alternative to the peach. Okie says he's been promoting the growth of...

US Commodities: Corn Down On Crop Progress, Spec Sales NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade ended Tuesday with good-sized losses, erasing Monday's advances as the USDA's bearishly construed crop progress report led to speculative selling. US Commodities: Corn Down On Crop Progress, Spec Sales NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade ended Tuesday with good-sized losses, erasing Monday's advances as the USDA's bearishly construed crop...

In 1996, she became assistant program manager for Recreation Special Uses in the Washington Office, where she provided national leadership in the areas of outfitter guides, ski area management, campgrounds and resort concessions. I'm also excited to meet the employees of the Plumas, and work with them in our important business of managing the natural resources of the forest. Alice has strong natural resource management skills and has proven herself to be a highly capable forest supervisor....