USDA confirms Asian soybean rust in US
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USDA&#39;s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) this morning announced it has confirmed a detection of soybean rust from two test plots at Louisiana State University near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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A cow for which preliminary tests for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as &quot;mad cow disease&quot;) had proved inclusive has been determined free of the disease, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced November 23.
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US Department of Agriculture officials yesterday said an initial test for mad cow disease has yielded an &quot;inconclusive&quot; result in a cow targeted under the department&#39;s high-risk category, prompting
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Japan confirmed Friday its first case of  the human variant of mad cow disease after the death of a man  believed to have contracted the fatal brain-wasting illness  from eating infected beef in Britain.
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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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Heading overseas first, where Japan has confirmed its twelfth case of BSE, or mad cow disease. Amy Bainbridge reports the latest case was detected in a five-year-old dairy cow, but there&#39;s been little consumer reaction to the news.
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BATON ROUGE, La. The first US cases of soybean rust have turned up at two research sites in Louisiana. The fungus creates reddish-brown blotches on leaves.
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Soybean rust disease was confirmed on Friday in Georgia, making it the fourth U.S. state to be infected with the devastating crop fungus in nine days, state officials said.
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Nov 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) ended 6 days of suspense for the beef industry by announcing late yesterday that a cow suspected of having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) didn&#39;t have the disease after all.
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Florida has found the highly  contagious soybean rust fungus in one of its soybean fields on  Wednesday, becoming the third infected U.S. state in a week,  state officials said.
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Storms probably carried soybean rust spores into Louisiana this year. Next year, Iowa might be hit. Washington, DC - A fungus that can seriously damage soybean plants has been spotted in Louisiana, the first
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Wind-borne spores probably brought the soybean rust fungus from South America during the hurricane season. They were discovered after most of Louisiana&#39;s soybeans had been harvested, says state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom.
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The first case of soybean rust, an  economically devastating disease for farmers, has been found in  the mainland United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department  said on Wednesday.
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Agriculture officials are testing plant samples from three Louisiana parishes and one Mississippi county for the fungus soybean rust, which damages crop production and forces farmers to use costly fungicide treatments.
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Diagnosticians at USDA&#39;s National Plant Germplasm and Biotechnology Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., have confirmed the presence of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, or soybean rust, today on soybean leaf samples collected from areas in Louisiana and one location in
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The yield-cutting soybean rust fungus was found in the "remnants" of a harvested soybean field in southern Texas about 15 miles from its border with Mexico, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Friday.
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South Korea rejected a third batch of U.S. beef, this time from Iowa, after bone chips the size of pea were found in a package, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, adding it plans to return the 10.2-ton shipment.