Currently ethanol producers get a subsidy in the US of 51 cents per gallon ethanol paid to the blender, usually an oil company that blends it with gasoline for sale. As a result of the beautiful US Government subsidies to produce bio-ethanol fuels, and the new legislative mandate, the US refinery industry is investing big time in building new special ethanol distilleries, similar to oil refineries, except they produce ethanol fuel. As a result of the beautiful US Government subsidies to...

The migratory elephants destroy crops, and property, he said adding that the worst was in 2005 when elephants destroyed about 265 acres of cropland in seven gewogs. The chief forest officer of National Conservation Division (NCD), Sonam Wangyel Wang, said that the NCD implemented different strategies like compensating livestock depredations, damages of crops and off-set to the farmers by providing fences, created awareness about the importance of these species in the eco-system and...

If aldicarb is consumed at low levels, it can cause flu-like symptoms such as nausea, headache and blurred vision, which typically abate in five or six hours. Aldicarb sulfoxide is a pesticide that is not approved for use on ginger. People who may have purchased the product should throw it away. As the secondquarter reporting season wraps up, carriers have warned again that fuel, which is right up there with personnel as their biggest cost, is headed higher in the third and fourth...

Periods of leaf wetness and high relative humidity are long enough to favor the development and spread of the disease, according to extension plant pathologists. When left untreated with fungicides, potential yield losses from gray leaf spot generally range between 5 to 40 bushels/acre. Under such conditions the fungus matures and develops more spores, which are blown to the upper leaves of the plant where they germinate and start new lesions. The light brown color continues until...

Department of Agriculture: No broad-based scientific evidence has declared organic food more healthful than conventional food, according to governmental regulatory agencies and even expert advocates of organic food. So why do an increasing number of customers brave prices up to 100 percent more for organic food? "This is a difficult question," Mattfeldt-Beman says. Conventional-food proponents say one of the reasons organic produce can have more nutrients is that it's harvested later than...