USDA Tests Show Soybean Rust Spreading
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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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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.
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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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Reuters is reporting that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a possible second case of mad cow disease in the United States.
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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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A potential new case of mad cow disease has been found in the US - but tests so far are inconclusive, said US agriculture officials.
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Federal health officials await test results from California farms and packing plants that could allow them to pinpoint the source of an E. coli outbreak that's sickened spinach eaters across the country.
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Cattled culled on a second farm in  southern England adjacent to the latest outbreak have tested  positive for foot and mouth disease, Britain&#39;s agriculture  ministry said on Friday.
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Britain's latest foot-and-mouth outbreak is the same strain as last month's, according to initial test results Thursday that gave farmers hope the disease could be contained in a small region.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Asian soy rust was found for  the first time in a commercial 2004/05 (October/September)  soybean crop in Parana state, Brazil's second biggest soy  producer, the country's crop research agency said on Monday.
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By AMY LORENTZEN  DES MOINES, Iowa - The state's Environmental Protection Commission is closer to implementing a ban on the spreading of manure on land planted with soybeans.
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The US Department of Agriculture yesterday said it is testing a suspect animal for mad cow disease and would know within a week whether it has discovered the second case in the United States.
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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 US Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
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Campaigners today call for urgent tests on the nation's farm animals after the emergence of a new strain of MRSA which has spread rapidly among farmers in Europe, causing an array of serious infections.
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Northeast Iowa farmers have said for years it was only a matter of time before soybean rust was found in the United States. Time&#39;s up.
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GUELPH -- The fate of Ontario&#39;s soybean crop is quite literally at the whim of the wind. The United States Department of Agriculture confirmed last week that Asian soybean rust is present in soybean crops
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The USDA tests for another potential case of mad cow disease, and the fact we all know about it infuriates some local ranchers. âInconclusiveâ reports of another case of mad cow disease is driving the