USDA Finds Devastating Soy Rust in Louisiana
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The first case of soybean rust has  been found on the mainland United States and could affect U.S.  crops for the near future, costing farmers millions of dollars,  the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
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ABOUT 9 tonnes of old fertilisers, poisons and sprays were being collected from 187 Southland farms as part of Environment Southland's drive for farms to dispose unwanted agrichemicals responsibly.
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Nov 18, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said today it is running confirmatory tests on a possible new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
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The hurricanes of August and September did even more damage to the state&#39;s citrus crop than first predicted, federal officials said.
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Illinois and Missouri are among 18 corn- and 12 soybean-producing states reporting record yields this fall, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
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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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By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas  Jun. 24--A leader in the Stephenville-area dairy industry faces penalties  from the state for failing to apply for a permit in the environmentally  impaired North Bosque watershed.
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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 U.S. Department of Agriculture  on Friday banned farmers from planting a variety of rice  containing genetically modified material that has not been  approved by the government, and it told growers to destroy any  plantings of the seed.
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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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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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Soybean rust has spread to   Arkansas, the first major U.S. soybean-producing state infected  with the contagious fungus that slashes crop production,  Arkansas officials said on Monday.
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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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DUBEDOU, Haiti Sept. 29, 2004 - The corn crop is flattened, rice paddies are washed away. Even the bitter oranges exported to make liqueur have become casualties of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which killed more
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Authorities say Hurricanes Charley and Frances devastated the state&#39;s agricultural industry. Hurricane Charley caused up to one (b) billion dollars&#39; damage to the state&#39;s more than 6 (b) billion dollars worth of crops.
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Financial results were fierce for this agricultural enabler.
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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.