Georgia Becomes 4th State with Soy Rust
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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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By WALTER C. JONES  ATLANTA - An innovative company from the West has chosen the pine forests of Southeast Georgia as the location for the country's first plant to process pine scraps into ethanol, the alternative fuel mostly distilled from Midwestern corn.
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By BRANDON LARRABEE  ATLANTA - Bob Rawlins raises his cattle and cultivates his crops far away from where a battle over the state's water supply could break out next year, but he knows the fallout could affect him and fellow farmers far into the future.
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Now that the US Department of Agriculture has confirmed that Asian soybean rust has been found in Louisiana, the first known incidence of the fungus in North America, the next step is forming a response to its arrival.
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U.S. Agriculture Department tests  confirmed the spread of soybean rust, a yield-slashing fungus,  in three more fields in Louisiana, a university scientist  familiar with USDA activities told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Parties Swap Senate Seats in Ga., Ill. As Isakson, Obama Win; Sen. Bunning Struggles in Ky. WASHINGTON Nov 2, 2004 - Republicans and Democrats swapped seats in Georgia and Illinois Tuesday night as they
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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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Georgia and Alaska have joined the expanding roster of states that have advanced the dates of their 2008 presidential nominating contests to Feb. 5 Ã¢ÂÂ barely eight months away Ã¢ÂÂ to garner more clout in the selection of the next chief executive.
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The number of Brazilian municipalities that registered cases of Asian soybean rust disease jumped to 81 from 51 in six days, the government's crop research department Embrapa said on Tuesday.
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The first US cases of Asian 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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Japanese authorities on Saturday confirmed the country's fourth outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus at a poultry farm in the country's south.
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Minnesota was deemed the healthiest U.S. state for the fourth year in a row, while Louisiana slumped into last place as the least healthy in annual state-by-state rankings released by on Tuesday.
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ATLANTA - Bob Rawlins raises his cattle and cultivates his crops far away  from where a battle over the state's water supply could break out next year,  but he knows the fallout could affect him and fellow farmers far into the  future.
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Tests confirmed soybean rust disease  has spread throughout Louisiana and into Mississippi, the U.S.  Agriculture Department said on Tuesday, adding to fears the  fungus could rapidly infect more Southern states.
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An outbreak of salmonella food  poisoning linked to peanut butter has widened to 329 people in  41 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  reported on Thursday.
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Neighbors are turning in neighbors for violating water restrictions, farmers are jittery about crops and churchgoers are praying for rain as Georgia suffers through one of its worst droughts in decades.
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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 US state in a week, state officials said.