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  • Lassen County designated disaster area 19 Nov 2009 16:31 GMT
    ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated Lassen County in California as ... significant production losses to pasture and forage." Farm operators in Modoc, Plumas, Shasta and Sierra ... for low interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements ...

  • Rice prices to shoot up as drought, cyclones hit output 17 Nov 2009 03:15 GMT
    ... Rice prices to shoot up as drought, cyclones ... month, according to the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Consumption will be 89 million ... 2001/02, said the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). "If we start having problems, weather problems... ...

  • Feds designate Lassen County drought disaster area 18 Nov 2009 09:34 GMT
    ... year's drought. Lassen won U.S. Department of Agriculture designation Tuesday and it comes two months ... eligible for low-interest emergency loans from the USDA Farm Service Agency. Farmers in Modoc, Plumas, Shasta ...

  • Battling the Elements: How Can India's Farmers Cope with Drought? 20 Nov 2009 06:21 GMT
    ... years ago, which was designed to improve agricultural sustainability in rain-deficient regions of the country. ... "groundwater banking," -- that is, storing surplus floodwater in aquifers, which can be drawn upon ... support prices" (at which it buys select farm produce) is also skewed in favor of ...

  • 12% of California households struggle with hunger since recession hit, study finds 17 Nov 2009 05:15 GMT
    ... 12% of California households struggle with hunger since recession ... 2006 and 2008, according to a new USDA report. Nationally, more than 49.1 million people lived ... farming communities, where the effects of the drought are making the need far greater." Everything ...

  • Texas ranchers welcome rain after historic drought 24 Nov 2009 16:20 GMT
    ... * Rains begin to break scorching Texas drought * Too late for many crops but ... in Texas, whose $21 billion in 2007 farm sales made it second to California in U.S. agricultural production. "We have to wait until all ...

  • UCR plant scientist's research spawns new discoveries showing how crops survive drought 18 Nov 2009 18:55 GMT
    ... done earlier this year by a plant cell ... can survive difficult environmental conditions such as drought. Working on abscisic acid (ABA), a stress ... is unavailable – research that has important agricultural implications. The Cutler lab, with contributions from ...

  • Scientists announce proof of mega-droughts 25 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
    ... Scientists from the University of California, Davis, this ... month announced the first proof of such mega-droughts after studying mineral formations in caves along ... might similarly trigger mega-droughts that would devastate agriculture, increase wildfires and cut water supply in ...

  • New olive planting method prompts Calif. oil boom 22 Nov 2009 19:44 GMT
    ... New olive planting method prompts Calif. oil boom ARTOIS, ... oil boom is underway in the state's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend ... coincided with the new plantings: a chronic drought prompting farmers to seek water-sipping crops, consumers' ...

  • How Crops Survive Drought 19 Nov 2009 08:51 GMT
    ... Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a ... can survive difficult environmental conditions such as drought. Working on abscisic acid (ABA), a stress ... is unavailable -- research that has important agricultural implications. The Cutler lab, with contributions from ...

  • Research Spawns New Discoveries Showing How Crops Survive Drought 19 Nov 2009 16:00 GMT
    ... Research Spawns New Discoveries Showing How Crops Survive Drought Posted on: Thursday, 19 November 2009, 08:11 ... is unavailable – research that has important agricultural implications. The Cutler lab, with contributions from ...

  • Deconstructing Dinner: "The California Drought and Fox News" 17 Nov 2009 12:31 GMT
    ... Deconstructing Dinner: "The California Drought and Fox News" We travel to the ... 3rd year of drought, leaving an already-fragile agricultural and seafood economy much more vulnerable. We ...

  • New olive planting method prompts Calif. oil boom 23 Nov 2009 08:30 GMT
    ... ARTOIS, Calif. (AP) -- An oil boom is ... oil boom is under way in California's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend ... coincided with the new plantings: a chronic drought prompting farmers to seek water-sipping crops, consumers' ...

  • New olive planting method prompts Calif. oil boom 23 Nov 2009 09:11 GMT
    ... ARTOIS, Calif. — An oil boom is under ... oil boom is under way in California's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend ... coincided with the new plantings: a chronic drought prompting farmers to seek water-sipping crops, consumers' ...

  • Deconstructing Dinner: The California Drought and Fox News 24 Nov 2009 14:14 GMT
    ... Deconstructing Dinner: The California Drought and Fox News We travel to the ... 3rd year of drought, leaving an already-fragile agricultural and seafood economy much more vulnerable. We ...


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