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Madagascar battles locust swarms save rice & maize crops
2013-12-31 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A pair of farmers in Madagascar are struggling to drive off hundreds of thousands of locusts heading for their rice plantation, equipped with no more than a branch and a plastic bag. "It's the third time in a month that these bugs have come near here and I'm terrified we may lose everything," says Razafindradaoro. For this father of four, salvation could come from the heavens. Flying about 10 metres above the ground, a helicopter will soon be spraying insecticide in the area around Tsiroanomandidy,...
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Okra-homa: As climate warms, Midwest farmers plant Southern crops
2013-12-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: It's no longer as corny as Kansas in August. Now it's cotton, okra and sorghum. The hotter summers and more intense and frequent droughts in the Midwest are forcing farmers here to forgo the plants of their grandparents' generation and look down South for inspiration. "We kept trying to grow sustainable tomatoes, but it was so hot that the plants got stressed and they wouldnt produce fruit," said Courtney Skeeba, who started Homestead Ranch in the small town of Lecompton, Kan., about a decade...
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Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: Final Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Crops from GMO Contamination
2013-12-24 18:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last week, the Public Patent Foundation filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case, Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) et al v. Monsanto, in the hopes that the highest court in the land would hear and reinstate the case of 73 American organic and conventional family farmers, seed businesses and public advocacy groups that seek protection for America`s farmers from Monsanto`s frivolous patent infringement lawsuits, and their promiscuous genetically engineered pollen...
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Looking beyond N, P, and K: Solving your crop's hidden hunger
2013-12-17 19:58:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Solving your crop's hidden hunger: soil nutrient and fertility needs read more
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Kenoi signs ban on new GMO crops
2013-12-07 11:08:18| Agriculture - Topix.net
But foes of the bill warned it would not only put the brakes on tens of millions of dollars worth of current GMO-related projects, but stop investment and growth of the island's agriculture industry.
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