Generations later, the Mennonite population has boomed an estimated 68,000 live in the Cuauht moc area but the growth has pushed their agricultural lifestyle toward collapse. That represents hope for another struggling population a tight-knit Protestant denomination that, nearly 90 years after it arrived to transform parts of the Chihuahuan Desert, has depleted its groundwater and soil and desperately needs new land. His drill was 820 feet deep but he still hadn't found enough water to...

Time passes slowly for anxious growers waiting to send the last of their fruit into wineries juggling tank space for the yet-to-be harvested grapes. My response to Carlos was not to call off the picking and have the people come in, hoping the weather forecast was correct and the clouds would move out and a nice breeze would blow for the rest of the night. When we first began farming, we would invariably try to get just one more cutting of hay for the year. We borrowed a side loader from...

Previously it was believed that wandering albatrosses and other species forage using a Lvy flight strategy - a cluster of short moves connected by infrequent longer ones. Published this week in the journal Nature, the team discovered that further analyses and new data tell a different story for the albatrosses and possibly for other species too. The first attempt to demonstrate their existence in a natural biological system suggested that wandering albatrosses perform Lvy flights when...

Scientists say disease that causes alfalfa to rot is widespread in. They say there are no effective treatments or controls for brown root rot. You can send a story to multiple email addresses by separating the email addresses with a semicolon (;) This station will not store your email address or your recipient's email address or use them in any way. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The samplings were conducted in 2005. A valid email address is...

Last year, the Farm Bureau convinced state lawmakers to spend $300,000 for research on the fungus, which can also infect vegetables and Christmas trees, Gregg said. Cornell study finds alfalfa disease widespread in five states. He said the best thing farmers can do at this point to deal with the infections is to buy stronger, disease-resistant alfalfa. The disease's lesions first appear as reddish-brown to dark brown areas of external discoloration, eventually progressing into the roots,...