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2008-11-17 Monitor Online Opinions We can make prosperity-for-all a reality

The alternative is to avail Artificial Insemination (AI) services nearer the farmers. A combination of developing a breeder in every district and AI would do. A combination of the above can be applied to beef animals to enable them put on weight much faster for sale. Some of the pastures like Rhodes could be planted for cutting as hay. We should also teach our people to make hay and silage at their farms. You also need extra feeds like maize brand for increased milk and beef production.

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2008-11-13 Hotchkiss opens winter greenhouses to public

A greenhouse offers an oasis that is free of hail, frost, snow, hornets, mosquitoes or noise, and many greenhouse growers never revert to outdoor planting. Hotchkiss says his six greenhouses, which cover about three-quarters of a football field, are set at a range of temperatures to suit a variety of plants. They are peaceful spaces, punctuated only by the throb and flutter of frogs and ladybugs, filled with the rich smell of healthy soil.

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2008-11-13 Texas AandM Agricultural Communications - AgNews - News by Date

She said the College Station team includes Dr. Jim Starr, professor of plant pathology and microbiology, and Dr. Wayne Smith, cotton breeder with the department of soil and crop sciences. Their program concentrates on finding and developing new sources of nematode-resistant cotton strains found mainly in Mexicos Yucatan region.

Dr. Terry Wheeler, AgriLife Research plant pathologist at Lubbock, said the galls are metabolic workhorses that channel the nutrients needed for cotton production from the plant to the nematodes.

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2008-11-08 FOCUS: The future of food production Fall River, MA - The Herald News

His innovations were credited with staving off Asian famine in the 1960s and allowing harvests to outpace population growth for 40 years, and won the Iowa-born plant breeder, now 94 and ailing, the Nobel Peace Prize.

Even here in Mexico, in this vibrant wheat belt crisscrossed by tractors and crop dusters, farmers are in a daily struggle. Climate change is blamed for more frequent droughts, hotter temperatures and the spread of new plant diseases. The cost of fertilizers has tripled, and their overuse has depleted soils, spewed more greenhouse gas into the skies and polluted water with farm runoff.

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2008-11-08 Africa Science News Service Reporting about African Science with an African Eye - Poor regulations hamper seed trade in Eastern Africa

According to Dr Diallo, although public sector agencies such as the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), the Kenya Seed Company (KSC), the Kenya Plant Health Inspection Service (KEPHIS), and the Ministry of Agriculture played a key role in varietal development, inspection, certification, however the current status where breeders do research work including field trials before submitting the same to the KEPHIS for performance testing, is but a repetition of the processes to seed development and a doubling of costs.

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2008-11-07 Lawn and Landscape Magazine :: News :: Dates for Mid-Atlantic Horticulture Short Course Set

Featured speakers include Jerzy Nowak, Ph. D. , Virginia Tech Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention; The Honorable W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr. , former Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources and House of Delegates; Brian Kane, Ph. D. , University of Massachusetts; Bernie Erven, Ph. D. , Ohio State University, Professor Emeritus, Chris Martin, Ph. D. , Arizona State University, Buddy Lee, nationally-known plant breeder and creator of the Encore Azalea and Bob Lyons, Ph. D. , University of Delaware, Longwood Gardens. Robert Hayter, ASLA, with the Hayter Firm, will conduct his special management workshop on Optimum Provision ManagementSM.

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2008-11-07 Africa Science News Service Reporting about African Science with an African Eye - Lack of biotechnology bill hindering crop yields

According to a scientist and a plant breeder from CIMMYT, Dr. Stephen Mugo, maize germ plasma with demonstrated resistance to stem borers has been developed, tested in the laboratory, green houses, in the field; and it has been released to Kenya which is the only option to adopt to if the culture of depending on food aid is to be erased from our minds.

The biggest challenge to our plant breeders is to practically ensure that their activities can help Africa feed itself in the shortest time possible, and rdquo; remarked Director Extension, research, Liaison and Technical Training Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Mary Kamau.

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2008-11-07 Western Producer - Rapid research clubs clubroot edition

Igor Falak looked down at the plants freshly pulled from the St. Albert, Alta. , soil. What he saw Aug. 8 made him feel good about being a plant breeder.

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2008-11-03 Opinion Woods lands wheats top role - Weekly Times Now

Dr Zwer, principal plant breeder at the South Australian Research and Development Institute, will give an update on oat breeding work.

Other speakers will discuss new wheat, canola and triticale varieties. Triticale breeder Jeremy Roake will talk about triticale varieties and the new rust strains attacking them.

OAT breeder Pamela Zwer will address farmers questions at the Gerogery field day next week.

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2008-10-31 The Gas Bug Popular Science

In September, LS9 made headlines with the launch of a pilot plant in its hometown that turns out hundreds of gallons of the biodiesel a week. The plant mixes modified

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