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Virginia soybean growers were not unprepared when the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that soybean rust, an aggressive and devastating fungal disease, had been detected in Louisiana.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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In the face of new competition primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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UK farmers anxiously await the results of tests which will show whether two different livestock viruses have spread.
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A farmer in China's southeastern province of Fujian has been infected with the H5N1 form of bird flu, state media said on Thursday, the first human case in the country in about seven weeks.
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In the face of new competition, primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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The first US cases of soybean rust, a fungus that hinders plant growth and drastically cuts crop production, were found at two research sites in Louisiana, officials said Wednesday.
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California's  farming industry is girding for another potential black eye  after a second outbreak this year of a potentially deadly E.  coli strain linked to its crops.
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VANCOUVER - A fungus usually found in tropical climates has been linked to the deaths of at least three people on Vancouver Island, raising concerns that climate change may be responsible.
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An E. coli outbreak that has sickened 59 people in the Northeast is prompting concern among West Coast farmers after officials announced that scallions suspected as carriers of the bacteria came from a Southern California farm.
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Experts warn that north-west African states could lose a quarter of this year's harvest to new swarms.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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Concern at the distance 'green' produce travels.
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A fungal disease that was first observed 29 years ago has since infected over 90 percent of butternut trees throughout their native range.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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A voracious Australian moth is threatening to infest one of the nationâs most important agricultural regions.