DANBURY With small ponds developing around many crops because of heavy rains, area farmers are concerned their grain sorghum crops might have sporadic sprouting, causing damage to their yield this year. If the sprouting affects the quality of the grain sorghum, it is taken out of the final price when it goes to be exported, Garrett said. Though crop insurance provides some protection against losses for farmers, It s not going to cover the full costs, said Mowery, who has insurance for his...

But with the shift to export-led industrialization in 1965, there was demand for low-wage industrial labor, so government policies deliberately depressed prices of agricultural goods. In Thailand, for instance, a tax on rice exports insulated the domestic market from price movements in the international market, depressing the price of rice and reducing the wage costs of non-agricultural employers. At the same time, under the pretext of controlling the heavy subsidization of agriculture in...

Organic activists and environmental extremist groups would have the public believe that Roundup Ready (glyphosate tolerant) alfalfa is a "threat to organic alfalfa and alfalfa export markets. edu, click on Biotech Alfalfa ), for gene flow to occur from one hay field to another, the following must occur: 1) Fields must flower simultaneously; 2) Pollinators must move between fields; 3) Pollen must fertilize plants; 4) Embryos must turn into seeds: 5) Seed must fall to ground and germinate;...

But federal and state governments already are racing to find alternatives to corn as they look for ways to use ethanol to help break the nation's dependence on foreign oil. Sony Perdue, a Republican, announced in February that a Colorado company would build the nation's first commercial-scale ethanol plant using - not corn - but wood chips to produce 40 million gallons of fuel a year in the Peach State. Department of Energy announced this week that it would spend $375 million in Tennessee,...

Small and medium-sized exporters, who account for more than 45 percent of India's total exports, say the appreciation is hurting business and is likely to cost jobs. Nath told reporters his ministry was setting up a panel of experts to examine the extent of job losses in the export sector, and said he would meet the finance ministry to seek tax rebates to enable exporters to tide over the appreciation. Cotton textile exporters say the appreciation of the rupee against the dollar has led to...