Soybean rust invades US
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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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Results on tests for soybean rust on Monday were expected to confirm the fungus has spread to three more Louisiana fields and one in Mississippi, an industry official familiar with the investigation told Reuters.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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The first US cases of the fungus soybean rust, which hinders plant growth and drastically cuts crop production, were found at two research sites in Louisiana, officials said Wednesday.
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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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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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Tree rustlers are striking across the country, probably prompted by the rise in timber value and the increase in worldwide demand for American hardwood.
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U.S. farmers will reap their largest  corn, soybean and cotton crops ever, with ideal weather in the  Midwest boosting corn to 11.613 billion bushels and soybeans to  3.11 billion bushels while cotton will hit 21.5 million bales  despite hurricane damage in the Southeast, the government  forecast on Tuesday.
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Soybean rust, a disease that has devastated soybean fields in Brazil and Argentina, has been found in two test plots at Louisiana State University near Baton Rouge.
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Scientists gathering in Bern are warning of a foreign invasion of Switzerland. Alien animals and plants pose a serious threat to biodiversity, the national economy and people's health - according to the ...
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A fungus capable of damaging soybean crops has arrived in the United States for the first time, causing concern among northeast Indianaâs agriculture industry that the fungus could spread here as soon as next summer.
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Indiana University has received a three-year, &#36;2.6 million grant to study genes that make soybean plants resist disease.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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Cattle peer through a fence at a ranch near Mabton, Wash., Jan. 12, 2004, after a Canadian cow living at this ranch became the first cow in the US to have a confirmed case of mad cow disease in Dec. 2003.
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SUFFOLK -- Virginia Tech scientists are preparing to protect the state&#39;s largest crop from a disease with strong potential to do damage.
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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 US Department of Agriculture&#39;s Animal and Plant Inspection Service on Wednesday confirmed the presence of soybean rust on a soybean leaf samples taken from two plots associated with a Louisiana State University research farm Nov. 6.