Dauphine on Friday said she issued the order to avoid great and irreparable injury from occurring to residents of Moss Landing Heights who have protested grower Steve Rodoni s plan to apply methyl bromide, chloropicrin and Telone to his fields along Potrero Road. Dauphine on Friday said she issued the order to avoid great and irreparable injury from occurring to residents of Moss Landing Heights who have protested grower Steve Rodoni s plan to apply methyl bromide, chloropicrin and Telone...

SALMON, Idaho -- Traffic in the small rural community of Salmon, Idaho came to a crawl as more than 2,400 people stopped at the Lemhi Feed and Fertilizer store to see Radar, a 6 foot, 7-1/2 inch tall Belgian draft horse owned by the Priefert Ranch Equipment Company. SALMON, Idaho -- Traffic in the small rural community of Salmon, Idaho came to a crawl as more than 2,400 people stopped at the Lemhi Feed and Fertilizer store to see Radar, a 6 foot, 7-1/2 inch tall Belgian draft horse owned...

Mr Stuart said to make matters worse there had been a 25 per cent hike in nitrogen fertilizer costs, so " even if you could get it on you are paying a lot more. Meat and Fibre section delegate Alan Stuart, who farms at Mauriceville said yesterday the stock food shortage has become critical and this could spark the sleepy sickness epidemic. They had not put rams over their hoggets in an effort to curtail demands on feed and scanning results showed that this season's lambing would be well...

New Look has thrown down the gauntlet to its arch rival Topshop with its third organic clothing collection this year, which hits its 560 stores this weekend. Guy Lister, New Look's marketing director, said that one-third of the retailer's cotton jersey ranges would be made from organic cotton by next spring, up from 5% now. Fronted by the TV presenter Fearne Cotton (pictured above), the collection includes 33 pieces ranging from festival-friendly maxi dresses and denim cut-offs to...

Until now, some companies could apply for a special permit allowing them to bulldoze the land, burying and killing off the gopher tortoise population - as many as 100,000 over the last ten years. Starting this week, every land developer like Mosaic will have to uncover and relocate gopher tortoises, classified as a threatened species by the Fish and Wildlife Commission. Before they tear up a 200 acre section of land, senior ecologist Ron Concoby and his team pick out every animal they can find.