USDA: Devastating Soybean Disease Found
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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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Soybean rust was confirmed in a  Tennessee, the ninth state infected by the highly contagious  disease that has rapidly swept across the U.S. South and is  taking aim at big Midwest farming states, officials said on  Wednesday.
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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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WASHINGTON - For the first time, scientists have created a genetic map of a cow, providing researchers with a new tool to reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition of beef and dairy products, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA
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Photo taken in January 2004 shows steers at a farm in Madison County in Iowa, the United States. A second case of mad cow disease may have occurred in the US, Agriculture Department officials said on Nov. 18, 2004.
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WASHINGTON - US farmers should have enough fungicide available next year to combat the newly arrived soybean rust disease, and federal regulators may speed up the approval of additional chemical treatments, the American Soybean Association said.
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The US outbreak of soybean rust has spread to Alabama and Georgia, the Agriculture Department said on Friday, leaving Texas the lone state in the Gulf Coast untouched by the devastating crop fungus.
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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 U.S. Agriculture Department expected test results late Wednesday on whether soybean rust had infected another Louisiana field, the sixth in a week, a spokesman said.
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Next-generation sequencing uncovers disease-causing microbes.
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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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The US Agriculture Department expected test results late Wednesday on whether soybean rust had infected another Louisiana field, the sixth in a week, a spokesman said.
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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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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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In foul weather in the Bering Sea, a Coast Guard salvage team, oil cleanup experts and marine biologists worked Monday to assess and contain damage caused by a soybean
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An explosion of soyabean farming in South America is threatening huge areas of forest and grassland containing some of the world's richest and most diverse wildlife, a leading conservation group said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - The US Agriculture Department said on Thursday that a new case of mad cow disease may have been found in the United States.