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  • Jones Co. among disaster areas due to crop losses 23 Nov 2009 17:22 GMT
    ... disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), due to crop losses by severe spring ... executive director of the Jones County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), said Wednesday that Jones ...

  • Disaster areas declared in parts of Alabama, Mississippi for farm losses from spring rain, summer drought 18 Nov 2009 14:57 GMT
    ... declared in parts of Alabama, Mississippi for farm losses from spring rain, summer drought JACKSON, ... rain, summer drought JACKSON, Miss. -- Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts ... when he wrote a letter to the USDA asking the state's Farm Service Agency to ...

  • Disaster declaration for farm losses in Tennessee and four other states 19 Nov 2009 09:59 GMT
    ... Disaster declaration for farm losses in Tennessee and four other states ... 18. 2009 7:27PM JACKSON, Miss. -- Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts ... when he wrote a letter to the USDA asking the state's Farm Service Agency to ...

  • Disaster declaration for farm losses in 5 states 17 Nov 2009 22:33 GMT
    ... Disaster declaration for farm losses in 5 states Associated Press - ... PM ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts ...

  • Vitter Urges Approval of Louisiana Ag Disaster Designation 20 Nov 2009 19:34 GMT
    ... Nov 20, 2009 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) ... sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack urging his quick approval ... urging his quick approval of a natural disaster designation for Louisiana. "Our state's agricultural sector ...

  • EPA keeping close eye on Louisiana, new chief says 18 Nov 2009 02:13 GMT
    ... EPA keeping close eye on Louisiana, new chief says ... drinking water systems and reduce urban and agricultural runoff pollution. Such pollution plays a role ... Orleans when their home was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. Her mother now lives in Bossier ...

  • EPA keeping close eye on Louisiana, new chief Lisa Jackson says in N.O. 18 Nov 2009 13:53 GMT
    ... EPA keeping close eye on Louisiana, new chief Lisa ... drinking water systems and reduce urban and agricultural runoff pollution. Such pollution plays a role ... Orleans when their home was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. Her mother now lives in Bossier ...

  • Rain dampens crop estimates 19 Nov 2009 12:12 GMT
    ... county executive director of the George-Jackson County Farm Service Agency, said the lower yields and ... state, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. The forecast anticipates soybeans being down ... of Agriculture and Commerce news release. The USDA announced Tuesday that 79 counties in Mississippi ...

  • Strain: State still waiting for funds 20 Nov 2009 07:26 GMT
    ... The state agriculture department should have nearly all of $44.5 million in disaster recovery grants and loans in farmers’ hands ... program were not created when the federal Farm Bill was passed last year and are ...

  • The Oceans are Coming Part II - Living on the Land 18 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... The Oceans are Coming Part II - Living on ... newsworthy in the mainstream media, and until Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in 2005, devastating coastal ... the area, and totally incapable of supporting agriculture of any kind beyond sheep grazing; the ...

  • Officials invite insurers to offer more policies 21 Nov 2009 08:59 GMT
    ... steps local government has taken to minimize flood risks, improve the community's appearance, reduce blight ... Amid his 40 years with his State Farm, he's only for filed one claim, for the ... showing how improvements, like storm shutters and hurricane-resistant windows, withstood the force of hurricanes Gustav ...

  • Better bounty 18 Nov 2009 23:18 GMT
    ... to an annual survey by the Missouri Farm Bureau. A traditional dinner with all the ... and general market conditions. Corinne Alexander, an agricultural economist with Purdue University, said the Consumer ... as $2.99 a pound. Alexander said the USDA reports that the average per pound cost ...

  • Thanksgiving Dinner to Cost Less 23 Nov 2009 19:02 GMT
    ... price this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. AFBF's 24th annual informal price ... last year," says Corinne Alexander, Purdue University agricultural economist. "This is wonderful news for grocery ... potatoes, the news is not so good. USDA reports that prices are up 10 percent ...

  • Warmer weather speeding up lagging harvest 18 Nov 2009 23:37 GMT
    ... State soybean harvest was 97 percent completed, and ... above last year's rating. According to the USDA, this year's corn harvest in Nebraska is ... Arizona had below normal precipitation. -- Moderate-to-exceptional drought covered 12 percent of the contiguous United ...

  • Copenhagen, U.S.: December 7 23 Nov 2009 22:30 GMT
    ... of the greatest environmental and climate change disasters in American history: Mountaintop removal's destruction over ... storms and more severe heat waves and droughts. Coal River Mountain is a tipping point ... by Downstream Strategies noted, an industrial wind farm on Coal River Mountain would provide more jobs, tax ...


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